Word: discreeter
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...less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets and crinoline. And many is the moody tit-bit dedicated to this young lady who fully appreciates the satisfactory character of a husband who has "struck oil" and reviews such contributions as the following with discreet reserve...
Emile Zola is writing a new play for the Odeon; the manager has asked him to be as discreet and virtuous as possible, so that they may announce the play as one to which any young girl might bring her mother...
...once determined to make a braying tour through the Provinces, so as to display his wonderful Mind. But his friends told him that the public would consider it a brazen Performance unless he presented a Certificate of Sanity and Respectability from some Respectable Almamater. So, meeting a venerable and discreet Almamater one day, he silly suggested that her Appearance would be greatly improved if she had but a Statue or two about her, adding that he himself happened to have one with him which he would only be too happy if she would condescend...
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...first he begs me be discreet...