indiscreet - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • question: The presence of the employer keeps you from asking indiscreet questions.
  • zeal: Do not suffer for pride, indiscreet zeal, and unnecessary intermeddling.
  • conversation: Prince Charles wasn`t hounded from office for his indiscreet telephone conversation, but of course he is an establishment figure.
  • comment: And he'd been a good friend - for some of the time - so might be permitted an indiscreet comment or two.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: But you run great risks, allow me to say, in being so indiscreet.
  • very: Paine's conduct in the affair was apparently quite honorable, tho certainly very indiscreet.
  • rather: He is sometimes rather indiscreet, but I do assure you he is exceedingly clever.

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