indiscreetness

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For her "indiscreetness" Argula was banished from court; and her husband, "for not controlling his wife properly," was dismissed from his lucrative position at the palace.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

I am all indiscreetness, and thou all prudence.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

Mrs. Burton, who was staying at Brighton, wrote to Miss Georgiana Stisted a most kind, sympathetic and beautiful letter—a letter, however, which reveals her indiscreetness more clearly, perhaps, than any other that we have seen.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

A blush suffused the cheeks of Drost Peter, and the queen also seemed perplexed by the indiscreetness of the plain-spoken count.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Either some one abroad was in collusion with him or perhaps indiscreetness rather than guilty connivance was responsible for his learning what he did learn.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)