"discretely" is a perfectly correct and widely used word in written English.
It functions as an adverb meaning "in a discreet or cautious manner," usually with the idea of not calling attention to oneself. For example: "George discretely left the party early so as not to draw attention to himself."
"The good pubs are sold off-market or discretely," he said.
For counter-insurgency or anti-terrorism missions, drones are easier to use discretely than manned aircraft because most of the team required to support them is far from the conflict zone.
Today a boss's appearances must be chosen discretely and discriminately, to get a specific message across, says Mr Trissel.
And as with the power-wielders, so with the activities they control: none can be said to be discretely economic, or political, or bureaucratic; they are usually all three.
After about 20 minutes, the group proceeded downstairs, where I discretely rejoined them to visit the actual shrine.In an antechamber at the back of the building, we performed a ritual purification by pouring water on our hands using a traditional bamboo dipper filled from a long stone basin, after which women in white robes presented us with elegant paper towels.
To prevent their weights jumping discretely at the end of each year, we've smoothed their revenue shares from one year to the next.The firms in the index are more dependent on China now than they were when we introduced the index.
"People are looking to buy services discretely when they need them, instead of owning an asset," says Jeff Miller, the boss of Wheelz, a peer-to-peer car-rental service that operates in California.As they become more numerous and more popular, however, sharing services have started to run up against snags.
On the contrary, complete freedom in the positioning of the workpiece and hammer was essential to permit the many small, yet discretely placed and directed, blows that were the crux of fashioning stone tools.
The arms and legs may be wholly contained within the cubic form, hands and feet alone discretely protruding.
Animals do not necessarily fall discretely into categories.
The French mathematician Abraham de Moivre, in his Doctrine of Chances (1718), first noted that probabilities associated with discretely generated random variables (such as are obtained by flipping a coin or rolling a die) can be approximated by the area under the graph of an exponential function.
