noun
definition
The quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion
synonyms
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An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
definition
A brief sexual liaison.
Examples of indiscretion in a Sentence
They will not condescend or take any notice of their indiscretion.
Imogen will have to wait until Monday to find out if and what Big Brother will do about this latest indiscretion.
I'll forgive your indiscretion with the Guardian, my dear.
Being caught doing any indiscretion, warranted punishment that was both, swift and brutal.
The errors range from a minor indiscretion of one of the more obscure rules to whole tables of missing data.
In 1779, however, he committed an indiscretion that brought him into trouble.
I do enjoy having a few little verbal jousts and you're very good at tempting me into indiscretion.
In this he apologized for Christianity not Mysterious, as a youthful indiscretion, and declared his conformity to the doctrines of the established Church.
Given their past reunion after Laws' indiscretion with the nanny, it would seem there could be a small chance that the couple would reconcile again.
He made a wretched emissary, and there was no limit to his arrogance, noisiness and indiscretion.
This extraordinary indiscretion might well have cost him his life, but the tsarevich fortunately destroyed the letter.'
In conjunction with C. Cornelius Cethegus, he undertook to murder Cicero and set fire to Rome, but the plot failed owing to his timidity and indiscretion.
One week you're man of the match in a glorious win against France, the next a split second's indiscretion brings ignominy.
Allan Stewart MP (Conservative) has also resigned this week following yet another sexual indiscretion.
Instead of owning up to his indiscretion directly with you, he acted like a coward and sent you a message in order to avoid hearing your pain and disappointment.
If you're mature you will tell your boyfriend of your indiscretion.
Howie and Quinn remained the oil and water of our association although there was no mention of Martha's teenage indiscretion that had caused so much early turmoil.
The position was still further embittered by the fact that, owing to an indiscretion, the memorandum became known to the public. Thereupon the king, irritated and outraged, replaced Abel's Clerical ministry by a more accommodating Liberal one under Zu Rhein under which Lola Montez without more difficulty became Countess Landsberg.
In this duel the victory of Austria was soon declared, The Prussian government believed that the effective government of Germany could only be secured by a separate understanding between the two great powers; and the indiscretion of the Prussian plenipotentiary revealed to the diet a plan for what meant practically the division of Germany into Prussian and Austrian spheres of influence.
To check his indiscretion the council, in November 1429, had the king crowned, and so put an end to Humphrey's protectorate.
Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
His indiscretion was repeatedly responsible for the king of Prussia's discoveries of the plans laid against him.