Example sentences for: circumspect

How can you use “circumspect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Can you have any doubt that given your reputation as a fair-minded and circumspect commentator on these matters your characterization will be widely quoted as an authoritative summary of my views?

  • Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be circumspect, he broke this promise almost immediately, giving an inflammatory interview to CNN in March 1997.

  • There are lots of times in our social interactions when if we told the truth, or spoke precisely rather than in a more circumspect fashion, we would find ourselves not socially interacting any more--in other words we'd get everyone so mad they'd avoid us altogether.

  • In Britain, however, the papers were much more circumspect.

  • On the second occasion I would have grown somewhat circumspect about dictionary meaning not simply because Johnson and Webster diverge so widely, but because meaning per se is determined by relative historical and ideological conditions.


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