discreeter

Wherever you have hitherto been, you have conversed, chiefly, with people wiser and discreeter than yourself; and have been equally out of the way of bad advice or bad example; but in the Academy at Turin you will probably meet with both, considering the variety of young fellows about your own age; among whom it is to be expected that some will be dissipated and idle, others vicious and profligate.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Well, I dined with Sir Matthew Dudley, and in the evening went to sit with Mr. Addison, and offer the matter at distance to him, as the discreeter person; but found party had so possessed him, that he talked as if he suspected me, and would not fall in with anything I said.

The Journal to Stella 2003

It was besides a discreeter location than Carbo's house, where (so rumor had it) even the boy who cleaned out the chamber pots was taking bribes from several people interested in knowing what Carbo was thinking of doing next.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Wimsey, not quite knowing what was behind it, chose the discreeter part.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

The great flamboyant vehicle thrived on a challenge, and it was for the sake of times like these, remembered and anticipated, that Simon Templar had kept it, year after year, despite the blandishments and the sometimes real temptations offered by newer and discreeter vehicles.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

And the much wiser and discreeter dogs looked up in answer, and seemed to say --

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

If it be for anger or by way of manace or to show a moderation of wrath as the graue and discreeter sort of men do, then thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Despatch after despatch until evening -- and then, ordered to remain behind to direct others, and cheered by the sight of our most revered and most short-sighted staff-officer walking straight over a little bridge into a deep, muddy, and stinking ditch, I took refuge in the kitchen and experienced the discreeter pleasures of "the Force."

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

He was pleased -- not thinking any harm and not seeing the trap -- and so he talked innocently along, and was no discreeter than a cow.

The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916

But, she gone, I turned into the rainy lane once more with my new acquaintance, discreeter, but not less giddy, it seemed, than I.

Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914