Indiscretion
[ɪndɪ'skreʃ(ə)n] or ['ɪndɪ'skrɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a petty misdeed.
(noun.) the trait of being injudicious.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence.
(n.) An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Imprudence, inconsiderateness, rashness, folly.[2]. Mistake, FAUX PAS, indiscreet act, act of indiscretion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, dereliction, delinquency, lapse,trip, slip, flaw, blot, omission, trespass, {[/auxpa]?}, peccadillo
ANT:Guilt, crime, innocence, good_behavior, guiltlessness, incorruption,impeccability
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The guilt of woman.
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Examples
- Rosamond never committed a second compromising indiscretion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And when he was excited he would say anything no matter what the consequences of his indiscretion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After a little while he did not regret Dallas's indiscretion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is it an indiscretion on my part to ask if you have decided yet on a course of proceeding? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Does it not, I ask, bespeak the indiscretion, or, worse than that, the blackness of heart--that I should say so! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And the real state of the case would never have been known at all in the regiment but for Captain Dobbin's indiscretion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If Wrong, if Craft, if Indiscretion Act as fair parts with ends as laudable? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Is it an indiscretion, on my part, to ask how? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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