circumspect
adjective
circumspectness
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a word derived from
circumspect.
Example Sentences
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Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures.
From Time Magazine Archive
It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
She had always considered Mrs. Field a woman of the same rigid circumspectness of attitude, and when she found Jennie calling there she was outwardly calm but inwardly irritated.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
Know'st thou it then?" was uttered with a show of mystery and eager circumspectness; in the "'Tis there!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
"But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
