0 careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret: --
They are very good assistants, very discreet - they wouldn't go talking to the press.
The family made discreet enquiries about his background.
1 careful not to cause embarrassment or attract a lot of attention: --
There are no ghoulish eyes here, and the blinding itself, although performed in decisive, violent gestures, is discreet.
It wasn't a discreet, mediated, modified version of human behaviour.
All of this would take place with the discreet acceptance of governments that increasingly preferred to block out the windows into the human soul.
Perhaps the best way of giving some indication of the wide spectrum of popular response is to look at one discreet episode.
At the conclusion of a royal funeral, there is always a discreet change of atmosphere as the new monarch is welcomed.
The conceptual supports the program in a fundamental yet discreet way (it remains at the back).
Quantitative data inevitably focus upon discreet and measurable social events and are collected through simple questions that can be computer coded for statistical analysis.
The building has a discreet presence on this street.