Significats de discreetness en anglès

But then Edwin had always regarded the discreetness of doctors as exaggerated.

We detect the one in the sensitive discreetness of the style.

After all, you know, I think that discreetness is just talk.

Let it be known that I only require discreetness.

They really do make me pay for discreetness.

All I ask from them is discreetness.

But let discreetness reign and security flourisheth!'

An old man began haranguing the constantly growing crowd, made up largely of those whose curiosity surpassed discreetness.

Louis Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort, and Earl of Feversham, coughed with mock discreetness under cover of his hand.

And meanwhile, Cavalcanti, using great discreetness, suffered the Duke's presence, and gave him and his suite most noble entertainment.

Berry bowed perfect discreetness.

The Netherlands found a leader in William, Prince of Orange, later known as William the Silent, because of his customary discreetness.

Two or three scattering ones, still up, were hovering in Peter's rear with a discreetness which, it chanced was now quite superfluous.

We could not employ any but men of absolute discreetness, pure lives, sound knowledge, experience, active men, and lovers of doing good.

The scheme was to be managed with great discreetness and delicacy, and accomplished by hook or by crook, if the means could be found.

Its discreetness, too, is delightfully adroit, when it suggests that its tenses, past, present, and future, are not as definite as one might desire.