indiscreet

Example Sentences

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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

She speaks in long, unbroken streams of consciousness that are both delightfully indiscreet and touchingly vulnerable.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023

The most pain doesn’t come from well-meaning but indiscreet words; it comes from silence.

From Washington Post • Aug. 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