indiscreetness
Example Sentences
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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 Hermann Schoenfeld
The indiscreetness of this measure was soon evident.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
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
It was at their third interview that his star shone again, and again dazzled him to indiscreetness.
From The Literary Sense by E. (Edith) Nesbit
But, thanks to the innocent credulity and indiscreetness of the friend to whom it was sent, the defamer was discovered and exposed.
From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg
