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indiscreetly
adverb as in incautiously
Example Sentences
“China solemnly demands that the Philippines ensures that Chinese diplomats can perform their duties, stops infringement and provocation and does not deny the facts, act indiscreetly or hurt itself by its own actions,” he said.
She remembered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself.
According to news reports, Ms. Westerhout all but dug her own grave when, after a few drinks, she indiscreetly bragged to reporters that “she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters.”
An article that says, for example, “He has indiscreetly and without counsel or forethought, endangered the security of the nation by releasing secret information that reveals the sources and methods by which the United States conducts its clandestine foreign affairs” would be fairly easy for any independently-minded representative to support.
Hoffa went to prison and later made even more enemies; he had to give up labor organizing as a condition of his release in 1971, and so he started talking indiscreetly about the Mafia, which preferred Hoffa’s more passive successor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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