Synonyms:
confidential
Meaning: entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary"
Usage examples
Dr. Martineau thought her evening throat much too confidential.
His letters had always been crisp and direct, and thoroughly familiar and confidential.
With such a man as his lordship it was almost impossible to find a moment for confidential conversation.
A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow.
It was an unheard-of thing, he said, depriving a man of his confidential secretary without so much as asking his leave.
"I often meant to write to you," he said, his voice falling to a confidential tone, "especially when I heard of your loss."
There's a sociable circle or a confidential couple, and the relinquished volume lies open on its face and as dropped under extreme coercion.
This offer on his part she accepted without much hesitation, and was despatched with a confidential servant to attend on the new-born child.
Captain Mitchell had snatched at the occasion of leave-taking to remark to Mrs. Gould, in a low, confidential mutter, "This marks an epoch."
I have passed my time in playing cat's cradle with Sir Jeffrey Bunker for the amusement of the company, and in confidential communications with my aunt and Lady Drummond.