Cautious individual, we hear?

Usage examples of discreet.

De vrouw, die discreet achter een halfgesloten deur bleef staan, herinnerde haar aan de Hebreeuwse gebeden.

With a discreet pop, Luciano withdrew the cork from his hoarded Barolo, and poured a tiny mouthful for his wife and a glassful for himself.

Jacques-Marie Houdon was a barely discreet four steps behind Norma Bellini, Madoc noted with no great feeling of disappointment.

While British propaganda made the most of the German bombing of English cities, the German authorities mostly kept a discreet silence about bombs falling on Germany.

Another discreet arrival and departure later that day was that of the Foreign Secretary, Burgo Smyth.

The pink stucco hotel in the middle of the main drag had a big canopied patio out front and a discreet sign that said CASA DEL PONIENTE, Three valet carhops stood alertly outside in black vests and white shirts waiting to do anything you told them to do.

What this Monroney guy was offering was the first sensible proposition Malachi had seen since coming to this crazy country, an dover the next two and a half years, Malachi made more money than he had ever dreamed of making in ten careers in the Army--in cash, nice, green, untaxable cash, complete with accommodating Chinese bankers in Cholon who could move things around a network of extremely discreet banks all over the world.

Sheffield could answer, there was a discreet tap on the door of the Star Chamber and Saul Dagenham was ushered in.

It is not the familiar Doric of Syracuse, nor even the obscure Elymi or Sicani, for I have spoken with many Sicilian merchants and soldiers in my life, and none, during my discreet queries, recognized any of the words I attempted to parrot from the recollections of my infancy.

What made it all rather worse was that this nice discreet faceless old Etonian was alarmingly well informed.

There was a discreet tap at the door and Eupraxia appeared, bearing a little tray.

He did not care to wonder overmuch about the discreet timing of the communication, although he did realise that Fraxinus would almost certainly be gone from Khalorn by the time he returned from his own expedition in search of the elusive Checuti.

The room seemed to be getting smaller with discreet gazes turned her way.

They were all intensely curious but all, even the children, remarkably discreet: yet at one point Stephen noticed a tall, martial man leave a group of Catholic Ghegs and come deliberately towards them, twirling his moustache with a hand adorned with a magnificent amethyst: he had two silver-mounted pistols in the belt of what looked very like a cassock and a musket or perhaps a fowling-piece - no, a musket -over his shoulder, a pectoral cross showing beneath its butt.

Dawn Voth did some discreet investigation yesterday, and she reports that people all over New Ibadan are dreaming identical dreams.