Sentence examples for settle discreetly from inspiring English sources

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Most of those cases will settle discreetly, with no trace of evidence in court files or Finra records.

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Although, in these days of allergies and picky eating, I wouldn't advise ordering ahead, a seemly modern solution is to slip off near the end of the meal as if to the loo, and settle up discreetly while you're away from the table, thus forestalling any protest.

Drug traffickers sometimes discreetly settle scores by kidnapping their targets, torturing them and dumping their bodies in the desert.

He acted as the family enforcer, discreetly settling problems with some of the thousands of royals who live in the capital.

What we get here are the details, many of them sordid: for instance, the story of Louis Legrand, or Loulou, the "ravishing 16-year-old male whore" whom Maugham and his longtime lover, Gerald Haxton, shared and also made available to the guests at Maugham's villa on Cap Ferrat, "Gerald afterward discreetly settling the bill.

May I settle this with the server discreetly, or must I tell the owner?

I think it was something that had to be settled as quickly and discreetly as possible".

He'd had the idea that he would find things more or less as they had been in 1913 — more deeply settled in, of course, discreetly modernized, tastefully adapted, but the rockery still there, the "glinting spinney" a beautiful wood, and the trees where the hammock had been slung still bearing the ridges of the ropes in their bark.

Never settle".

Please settle.

Why settle?

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