circumspectly

Example Sentences

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“I’m happy for what the wedding means,” Laura added to The Associated Press very circumspectly, wiping tears away alongside her mothers.

From Seattle Times

“I don’t go into this looking for villains,” Karsner said in an interview, circumspectly holding back on specific remedies.

From Washington Post

She began, circumspectly, by talking about Mirabelle, as she had been for months.

From Literature

You keep thinking that Buttler will tee off against Lyon, but he plays circumspectly with the ball still spinning big, and only keeps out the last ball rather than trying to work the strike.

From The Guardian

Classical economists from Adam Smith on typically depicted economic man as a rational creature, acting circumspectly in his own self-interest.

From Salon