How To Use circumspectly In A Sentence
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- If you are observant you can get little glimpses into their lives by watching and listening circumspectly.
- The thing was done circumspectly, mind you -- nae high-handedness -- but Belle's folk were about Glen Scaur, a droll wandering band, claiming great descent from Eastern folk, and with horses and dogs and spaewife among them; and Belle (as they will be calling her) was the daughter o 'the Chief, a very proud man. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
- I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments. Personality in Literature
- Then he turned on his light, circumspectly, directing its rays to the ground at his feet. When the World Was Young
- I would suggest that for the time being you behave as circumspectly as possible in political matters.
- Shirley Tilghman, a research biologist who is now the president of Princeton, made a similar point more circumspectly. How America Can Rise Again
- His excellency, having heard the circumstances of the dispute, sent one of his gentlemen to invite the youth to dinner; and after having assured him that he might depend upon his countenance and regard, represented the rashness and impetuosity of his conduct so much to his conviction, that he promised to act more circumspectly for the future, and drop all thoughts of the mousquetaire from that moment. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- I would suggest that for the time being you behave as circumspectly as possible in political matters.
- Let me put it as circumspectly as I can - the government is culpable, and not just for incompetence.
