indiscreet

Example Sentences

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The email exchanges are peppered with gossipy and sometimes indiscreet comments.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

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

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

He kept a diary for 25 years, about his work, his political activism, his friendships and other subjects, and they promise to be “anecdotal, indiscreet, witty, gossipy and utterly candid.”

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

“I have said nothing. But it may be that Hamlet let it slip before he was sent away. We have seen how indiscreet his madness makes him. And Claudius has spies everywhere.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein