circumspectly

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cir·cum·spect

(sûr′kəm-spĕkt′)

adj.

Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent.

[Middle English, from Latin circumspectus, past participle of circumspicere, to take heed : circum-, circum- + specere, to look; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]

cir′cum·spec′tion (-spĕk′shən) n.

cir′cum·spect′ly adv.

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Adv.

circumspectly - in a cagey manner; "`I don't know yet,' he answered cagily"

cagily

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circumspectly

[ˈsɜːkəmspektlɪ] ADV → prudentemente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

circumspectly

[ˈsɜː^rkəm!spɛktli] adv (= cautiously) [behave] → avec circonspection

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

circumspectly

adv → umsichtig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

circumspectly

[ˈsɜːkəmspɛktlɪ] adv → con circospezione

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.

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I lived more circumspectly, drank less deeply, and went home more frequently.

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Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.

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I waved my cap (for my hat was long since worn out) and my handkerchief toward the island; and upon its nearer approach, I called and shouted with the utmost strength of my voice; and then looking circumspectly, I beheld a crowd gather to that side which was most in my view.

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This brought me near to where I had encountered Ben Gunn, the maroon; and I walked more circumspectly, keeping an eye on every side.

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"But do they know, at least, how to act circumspectly? There is an island; on that island there are trees; under those trees, terrestrial animals, bearers of cutlets and roast beef, to which I would willingly give a trial."

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At the sight of that we crawled as circumspectly as possible out of the twilight of the kitchen into the darkness of the scullery.

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"I suspect no one; death raps at your door -- it enters -- it goes, not blindfolded, but circumspectly, from room to room.

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He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably guilty and furtive in his whole appearance.

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The dairyman himself had been lending a hand; but Mr Crick, as well as his wife, seemed latterly to have acquired a suspicion of mutual interest between these two; though they walked so circumspectly that suspicion was but of the faintest.

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After eating our fill of berries, with two nestfuls of partly hatched quail-eggs for dessert, Lop-Ear and I wandered circumspectly into the woods toward the river.

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Meanwhile he was haunted by the idea--he should like to possess such a pair of spectacles himself; then, perhaps, by using them circumspectly, one would be able to look into people's hearts, which, he thought, would be far more interesting than merely to see what was to happen next year; for that we should all know in proper time, but the other never.