indiscreetness
Example Sentences
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My cheeks reddened at the thought of my indiscreetness; yet he was a man to command confidence.
From The Holladay Case A Tale by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Her letters have a strange tone, I may say, an indiscreetness that amazes me.”
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 Thomas Wright
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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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 Bernhard Severin Ingemann
