Meanings of more circumspection in English

However, with more circumspection than upon the previous occasion, he returned a civil answer.

After this, they behaved with a little more circumspection, and gave us much less trouble.

You have more circumspection than is wanted.

The clerical members of the conference met separately at the rectory, where they showed more circumspection, but an equally partisan bias.

Hedges started to answer it anyway, if with rather more circumspection than he truly wanted to exert, but another voice spoke before he could.

No great harm if she were; but still there had been passages between himself and her which should have bound her over to more circumspection.

Recognizing the negative attention they could draw to themselves, representatives and senators would act with more circumspection, and last-minute add-ons to big bills would recede.

The poem on "Creation" has, however, the appearance of more circumspection; it wants neither harmony of numbers, accuracy of thought, nor elegance of diction.