Sentence examples for indiscreet from inspiring English sources

"indiscreet" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe an action or remark that is unwise, improper, or imprudent. For example, "After stumbling out of the bar, he made several indiscreet remarks that caused embarrassment to those around him."

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indiscreet

adjective

Not discreet; wanting in discretion.

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But there was no question of any indiscreet inquiries into his whereabouts being conducted as long as hostages' lives remained at risk.

To publish diaries so soon after leaving office is indiscreet and it won't reflect well on his successors, be they Labor or Liberal.

So the baguette survives—"intimist (sic), fragile, indiscreet and disturbing", as another director, Robert Enrico, calls it.In this section Most-wanted photography Behind the headlines New waves The unrepentent modernist Glorious Georges ReprintsSuch "intimist" films, however, are now in the minority.

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Mr Holbrooke will be missed, not least by future generations of historians of the Balkans, who have been deprived of a valuable and sometimes wonderfully indiscreet source.

Off the record conversations are the daily currency of life in Westminster: there are a surprising number of senior figures who will say similarly indiscreet things to political reporters.

The Met's defence was that the actual target of its invocation of the Official Secrets Act was the indiscreet police officer.

These programmes are mostly made in Rio and tend to feature characters who are richer and whiter than average and flit around the place dressed in casually expensive clothes and conducting indiscreet love affairs.

Loose lips may still sink ships, but his research demonstrates that an indiscreet keystroke could do just as much damage.

Peter Mandelson, now lording it back in Britain as first secretary of state, was abrasive and indiscreet as trade commissioner.

He stood out, in the words of Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Sandherr, head of intelligence, as reported to a young diplomat, for "his indiscreet curiosity, his constant snooping, his air of mystery, and finally his false and conceited character, in which one recognises all the pride and all the ignominy of his race".

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