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circumspectly

circumspectly \cir"cum*spect`ly\ (s[~e]r"k[u^]m*sp[e^]kt`l[y^]), adv. In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.

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circumspectly

adv. In a circumspect manner. With consideration for all that is pertinent.

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circumspectly

adv. in a cagey manner; "`I don't know yet,' he answered cagily" [syn: cagily]

Usage examples of "circumspectly".

Their possession of money also made the nine men ride circumspectly, for the forests were full of dangers, yet by avoiding the main roads they travelled safely around the places where hungry brigands laid desperate ambushes.

London, and I, mindful of earlier unscheduled destinations after racing, took myself circumspectly down the road to the nearest public telephone box.

Grace, when they had left the shop and were walking circumspectly through the village.

Cotopaxi and I went round circumspectly, collectedly, setting ourselves right at every fence, jumping them all cleanly, enjoying the precision and wasting no time.

Chance, or if you will a chance pliant to our wishes, brought it about that on the evening of the bathing day just described -- we were eating blueberry soup followed by potato pancakes -- Matzerath informed Maria and me, ever so circumspectly, that he had joined a little skat club made up of members of the local Party group, that he would meet his new skat partners, who were all unit leaders, two evenings a week at Springer's restaurant, that Sellke, the new local group leader, would attend from time to time, and that that in itself obliged him to be present, which unfortunately meant leaving us alone.

If you had been the focus instead of this rather impressionable and previously frustrated young woman, I think matters might have progressed more circumspectly.