confidential
adjective
spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret.
quasi-confidential
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a word derived from
confidential.
Example Sentences
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For a time talk frothed over Britten's head, but the natural mischief in Mrs. Millingham had been stirred, and she was presently echoing his demand in lisping, quasi-confidential undertones.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
An unknown number of people have almost every week since, speaking perhaps extravagantly, asked me in a quasi-confidential manner, 'How was it that you and Lincoln were so intimate and he never gave you anything?'
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon
"Many of them are quite lady-like," echoed Mrs. Sawbridge suddenly, picking up the whole thing instantly and speaking over her tea cup in that quasi-confidential tone of hers to Mr. Brumley.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The newspaper, too, was a vehicle for personal accounts of a quasi-confidential nature, of which I can give a significant example.
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
