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confidentially

[ US /ˌkɑnfəˈdɛnʃəɫi/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒnfɪdˈɛnʃə‍lˌi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a confidential manner
    spoke to him intimately and confidentially

How To Use confidentially In A Sentence

  • The fact is," confidentially, "I may not look it but I am a good deal of a tenderfoot. The Dude Wrangler
  • People can phone in the knowledge that any information they give will be treated confidentially.
  • I mentioned the engagement as a mere matter of course to somebody, and though I mentioned it confidentially, it started this slander about Malcolm Cromarty and Cicely Farmond conspiring to murder -- to _murder_, Lilian! Simon
  • And I went to him personally and said, look, can I talk about anything we might have discussed confidentially?
  • Say, boss, "-- and Sundown leaned toward Corliss confidentially and lowered his voice, --" I ain't what you'd call a nervy man, but say, I got somethin 'jest as good. Sundown Slim
  • Ta bag," he said confidentially, "she isn't a hundert years auld, but she's auld, and she was proke, and ta wint whustled when she plew, but she's chust mended, and to-morrow -- ah, to-morrow! Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
  • Nash hadn't raised his voice, still spoke rather softly, confidentially.
  • You wouldn't expect much speed out of it, but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect.
  • The following method was imparted confidentially to me by the Canon Charcot, a gourmand by profession, and a perfect gastronome, thirty years before the word gastronomy was invented: The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
  • He was, to use his own expression, a "'sponsible nigger," though he was actually only cleaner up, and carpet sweeper in the office, negroes never being allowed to have any charge in the working of the line, or a more "'sponsible" station than that connected with the office work, though in that they are often confidentially employed in carrying money to the bank, &c. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858
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