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Word Meanings - CIRCUMSPECTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.

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  • CIRCUMSPECTNESS
    Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
  • WARILY
    In a wary manner.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • CIRCUMSPECTIVE
    Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • CIRCUMSPECT
    Attentive to all the circustances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary. Syn. -- See Cautious. (more info) look about one's self, to observe; circum + spicere, specere, to
  • CAUTIOUSLY
    In a cautious manner.
  • CIRCUMSPECTLY
    In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • CIRCUMSPECTION
    Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton. Syn. -- Caution; prudence; watchfulness; deliberation; thoughtfulness; wariness; forecast.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • CIRCUMSPECTIVELY
    Circumspectly.
  • UNWARILY
    In an unwary manner.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • INCIRCUMSPECT
    Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic. Tyndale.
  • UNCAUTIOUSLY
    Incautiously.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • INCIRCUMSPECTION
    Want of circumspection. Sir T. Browne.

 

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