Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a confidential manner; in reliance on secrecy: as, to tell a person something confidentially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
confidential manner. - adverb
Spoken of in aprivate manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a confidential manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, they are worried about regulators 'ability to maintain confidentially of any trade secrets divulged, according to testimony that insurers and trade groups have submitted in advance.
Car Insurers Defend Their Credit-Score Use Leslie Scism 2010
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(Leans in confidentially) "And we all know about the blood sacrifices the Mayans made to their heathen gods ... now that's good cinema just waiting to happen!"
New Orleans, Yadda Yadda docbrite 2005
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If you are interested in this vacancy then please apply today to Penny Lilley - penny@langtonhowarth.com or call confidentially on 0113 380 1645.
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It was to bring people aware that they could call confidentially on crimes.
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The pages are nearly all newspaper articles, but one internal FBI document informed Hoover of the accident and says the police chief in Edgartown, Mass., "confidentially" advised that Kennedy was the driver.
FBI files show Edward Kennedy's life was constantly threatened 2010
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Pelosi, Rockefeller, and several other congressmen "confidentially" expressed concern but did nothing.
Martin Garbus: Angry and Furious at the Collaborationist Democrats 2008
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Have private dinners with each one, dismiss your assistants so you can talk 'confidentially'.
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But he lacks one thing and that is complete control within City Hall which could ultimately send him to the dunce's chair whispers confidentially which is currently occupied by one Mr. Meat.
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"The fact is," confidentially, "I may not look it but I am a good deal of a tenderfoot."
The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916
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They're like the 'Piscopals in more ways' n one; both hates to be disturbed, both likes some shade, an '"-- confidentially --" both air pretty pernickity.
Lovey Mary Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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