Synonyms

1. discernment

Sentence Examples

1. When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess and all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and with equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great discretion.
2. All those present, and there were a good many, were watching him, and as they saw him there with half a yard of neck, and that uncommonly brown, his eyes shut, and his beard full of soap, it was a great wonder, and only by great discretion, that they were able to restrain their laughter.
3. Men of prudence and discretion, Courtiers gay and gallant knights, With the wanton damsels dally, But the modest take to wife.
4. He left the basin on the ground, with which Don Quixote contented himself, saying that the pagan had shown his discretion and imitated the beaver, which finding itself pressed by the hunters bites and cuts off with its teeth that for which, by its natural instinct, it knows it is pursued.
5. She was no doubt used to maintaining the utmost discretion, and if she felt he were pushing her she was likely to shut down.
6. I assure you, Miss Bridges, I am the soul of discretion.
7. Now, however, I see nothing in it but a very natural and consistent degree of discretion.
8. Still, Mary, I must encourage discretion when delivering mail to your embroidery student.
9. How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep!
10. When it was apparent that Olivia and I would be together regardless, Rina had counseled discretion, but that was all.