indiscreet

Example Sentences

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He said at the time the couple had assumed the information in the article came from a leak "within the ambulance or hospital, somebody being indiscreet".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 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 disliked indiscreet people and rarely betrayed a confidence, even to his diary — and thus those diaries, published now under the title “Madly, Deeply,” are fantastically dull.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

That night as we walked in the garden, I admitted to Mama that I had made an indiscreet promise.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez