indiscreet
Example Sentences
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Her essential judgments on persons and events, as quoted, make her look wise and perceptive, which is her general reputation, but she was also indiscreet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The end came a few months after Eriksson fell into a Sunday tabloid newspaper's 'Fake Sheikh' sting, enjoying fine dining and vintage champagne before delivering a series of indiscreet revelations.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
So he put it on her forehead instead, but it trickled onto her nose, where it would have been indiscreet to wipe it away, however much it may have tickled.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
The most pain doesn’t come from well-meaning but indiscreet words; it comes from silence.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2022
Upon arriving home he noted that his barnyard was full of seaweed, which then prompted a characteristically indiscreet observation: He had made “a good exchange...honors and virtues for manure.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing indiscreet
Bill Withers (1938–2020) Tribute List
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