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Значения термина discreetness на английском

португальский
prudência
каталонский
prudència
испанский
discreción

Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress.

        prudência
        португальский
        diplomacia
        каталонский
        delicadesa
        испанский
        discreción

        Subtly skillful handling of a situation.

              diplomacia
              Использование термина discreetness на английском
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              But then Edwin had always regarded the discreetness of doctors as exaggerated.
              Clayhanger
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              We detect the one in the sensitive discreetness of the style.
              The Principles of Success in Literature
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              After all, you know, I think that discreetness is just talk.
              Moral
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              Let it be known that I only require discreetness.
              The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2
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              They really do make me pay for discreetness.
              Moral
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              All I ask from them is discreetness.
              The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2
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              But let discreetness reign and security flourisheth!'
              Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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              An old man began haranguing the constantly growing crowd, made up largely of those whose curiosity surpassed discreetness.
              Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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              Louis Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort, and Earl of Feversham, coughed with mock discreetness under cover of his hand.
              Mistress Wilding
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              And meanwhile, Cavalcanti, using great discreetness, suffered the Duke's presence, and gave him and his suite most noble entertainment.
              The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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              Berry bowed perfect discreetness.
              The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3
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              The Netherlands found a leader in William, Prince of Orange, later known as William the Silent, because of his customary discreetness.
              Early European History
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              Two or three scattering ones, still up, were hovering in Peter's rear with a discreetness which, it chanced was now quite superfluous.
              Captivating Mary Carstairs
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              We could not employ any but men of absolute discreetness, pure lives, sound knowledge, experience, active men, and lovers of doing good.
              The Brotherhood of Consolation
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              The scheme was to be managed with great discreetness and delicacy, and accomplished by hook or by crook, if the means could be found.
              History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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              Its discreetness, too, is delightfully adroit, when it suggests that its tenses, past, present, and future, are not as definite as one might desire.
              The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with...
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              португальский
              prudênciadiplomacia
              Discreetness через время