Synonym: careful, cautious, considerate, prudent, thoughtful. Antonym: indiscreet. Similar words: discredit, discretion, discrepancy, screen, screening, screeching, discriminate, discrimination. Meaning: [dɪ'skriːt] adj. 1. marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint 2. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic 3. heedful of potential consequences.
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(31) Skirt lengths are a discreet inch above the knee.
(32) We are all very discreet here, you see.
(33) Chambers was discreet about the affair.
(34) He followed at a discreet distance.
(35) In his heyday a driving but discreet drummer, he specialized in playing with brushes rather than sticks.
(36) Also, my costume had discreet padding and my boots had lifts to change my apparent height and size.
(37) Charcoal, navy or brown are more discreet than black or other colours.
(38) A discreet nod indicated that he was ready to leave.
(39) Ace helped her out, leading her towards a Range Rover parked a discreet distance away.
(40) A short, somewhat corpulent man, he wore dark, double-breasted suits of discreet quality.
(41) She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.
(42) Sign language is almost essential in shops too, but it's a little less embarrassing because you can be more discreet.
(43) He had also made discreet inquiries about a more permanent post, but once again his hopes were dashed.
(44) Andrew's very discreet -- he won't tell anyone you're leaving.
(45) She knocked quietly, as good discreet housemaids do, on Maman's door.
(46) But there are also those who suggest that the mayor has created his own, discreet,[www.Sentencedict.com] Chicago political machine.
(47) Bodie walked down the stairs, through one of the fire doors, a more discreet position from which to watch.
(48) She wore a dove-grey Jaeger frock, discreet and asexual, but off an expensive peg.
(49) Civil servants are non-political, anonymous, discreet and specialize in a particular sphere of public business.
(50) According to Kennex, any given section of any symmetrical frame-by width-responds to ball impact of vibrating at its own discreet frequency.
(51) After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
(52) Some discreet enquiries there yielded the information that fitzAlan was about to take Tracy, leaving his new wife at home.
(53) He had read some of the more discreet passages for the evening audience, having had a last-minute change of plan.
(54) I got involved with him, and he was extremely discreet.
(55) But leaders of such movements could easily work out less controversial and more discreet arrangements to satisfy their drives.
(56) The pressure is discreet - after all, the survival of a key Western ally and a new democracy is at stake.
(57) He was about to kiss her again when he heard a discreet cough.
(58) Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance.
(59) We're not referring to discreet overviews of the local naturists either!
(60) John Major will need to do more than provide a discreet crossing from worthy words to anti-social acts.
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