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Confidential   /kˌɑnfədˈɛnʃəl/  /kˌɑnfədˈɛntʃəl/   Listen
Confidential

adjective
1.
Entrusted with private information and the confidence of another.
2.
(of information) given in confidence or in secret.  Synonym: secret.  "Their secret communications"
3.
Denoting confidence or intimacy.  "In confidential tone of voice"
4.
The level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified.



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"Confidential" Quotes from Famous Books



... amiable wife, always entertained the warmest friendship. This woman, whose position was not assured enough to make people overlook her peculiar and unfortunate domestic complications, has told the story of her own life in her long and confidential correspondence with Grimm, Galiani, and Voltaire. The senseless follies of a cruel and worthless husband, who plunged her from great wealth into extreme poverty, and of whom Diderot said that "he had squandered ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason

... the master listened in silence while she with her ceaseless volubility made fun of her friends and related their secret defects, their most intimate habits, their mysterious amours, with a kind of relish, as if all women were her enemies. In the midst of one of these confidential talks, she stopped and said with a shy expression and ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... Hat did intimate that the offensive would probably come in the spring of 1917, if not later, and you accepted the information as strictly confidential and indefinite, as you should accept any received from a Brass Hat. It never occurred to anybody to inquire if "1917" meant June or July of 1916. This would be as bad form as to ask a man whose head was gray last year and is black this year if he ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... Joachim's sentiments towards his wrong-headed follower, whom he used to call the tribune, and the savage, were of a mixed nature; but, whether he liked him or not, he evidently esteemed and valued him. No other officer was so constantly employed on confidential, important, and hazardous missions, both previously to the battle of Wagram, when the Anglo-Sicilians menaced Naples with an invasion, and at a later period, when Murat entertained a design of landing in Sicily. In this project the king was thwarted by the chief of his staff, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various

... him out, will yer son?" puffed the red-faced Buck Bradley. "It's my private opinion," he went on, in a voice intended to be confidential, but which was merely a subdued bellow, "that that chaffer of mine couldn't ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering


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