circumspectly

comparative more circumspectly · superlative most circumspectly

1. In a circumspect manner; with consideration for all that is pertinent.

   But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

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   Coverage of Mr. Carter’s many Monitor Breakfasts reveals a man ready to shake things up, in his own way. At the 1974 gathering, when he publicly revealed his presidential aspirations, he said he would ask for the power to use wage and price controls to address the struggling economy – “but I would use it circumspectly,” he added.

   1974, Jimmy Carter, quoted in: Harry Bruinius, For Jimmy Carter, a life of service, defined by faith, in: The Christian Science Monitor, December 29 2024