Sentence examples for discreet by from inspiring English sources

No doubt there have been exchanges but they have been rather discreet by modern standards.

Unlike those earlier developments, the new wireless shopping technology may arrive with a price that some customers could find unacceptable: a loss of privacy that could make the Web seem discreet by comparison.

Try to be discreet by bringing a book or something to do while you watch.

Say sorry as you do so, and make sure to keep your voice quiet, and be discreet by doing this in a bedroom or quiet area, where you can talk things over properly.

Gogo was married while her mother was abroad, wearing a "sedate and discreet" dress by another designer.Ms Secrest breaks new ground by unearthing the couturier's long-term lover and business partner.

At South by Southwest, I saw a device called Memoto, a discreet thirty-six by thirty-six millimetre wearable camera that automatically snaps a photo every thirty seconds, which will be released later this year for two hundred and eighty dollars.

The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (Faber).

The discreet sign by the door does not say Lehman Brothers.

It was a good spot for a meeting: private, discreet, hidden by trees.

Revealingly, he prepared for "Discreet Deaths" by researching youth, death and suicide on the Internet.

The mission I undertook was discreet but by no means secret.