How to Use indiscipline in a Sentence

indiscipline

noun
  • What he hasn’t solved is the indiscipline of the president.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 13 May 2017
  • But for all the enthusiasm on the ground, there were early signs of indiscipline, starting at the top.
    Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • These are the two extremes of the culture war, which Donald Trump, for all his indiscipline, seems determined to fight.
    vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But the about-face on Syria was about more than the indiscipline of a reliably inconstant presidency.
    W.j. Hennigan, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The story of Fitzgerald as a wastrel and a victim of his own indiscipline is attractive but exaggerated.
    Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • For example, a propensity to spend hours playing online games becomes an index of indiscipline in and of itself, even if the person playing them is debt-free and has a clean record otherwise.
    Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Many global firms succumbed to indiscipline and poured money into vanity projects abroad.
    The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, almost every news organization has reported about the private rages, the lack of focus, the indiscipline and the isolation that also define the style of the 45th president.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • What befuddled so many of his admirers is that the scandal revealed a streak of indiscipline that doesn’t mesh with the man who created a company so resolutely fixated on the long term, so committed to living its values.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • As for the Vision Fund’s broader impact on startups, the most controversial question is whether stuffing balance-sheets with too much capital encourages indiscipline.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Congress’ indiscipline is hurting the American people and career politicians have forgotten how to govern.
    Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Fiji’s attacking brilliance came with large doses of indiscipline.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • But Biden, for all his strengths, has some real and obvious vulnerabilities as a candidate, from his age to his indiscipline as a public speaker to his recently apologized-for habit of getting uncomfortably close to people.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
  • For example, a lack of sufficient information about the specific ‘use of proceeds’ in prospectuses during Eurobond Initial Public Offerings is magnifying the risk of fiscal indiscipline.
    Misheck Mutize, Quartz Africa, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The Michael Flynn fiasco was the entirely predictable product of the indiscipline, deceit, incompetence and moral indifference that characterize Donald Trump’s approach to leadership.
    E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Through whatever combination of intention, ignorance or mental indiscipline, Trump is a habitual stater of untruths and half-truths, and this vague fog of fancy and fact — hyperbolic, sloppy, hypnotically repetitious — keeps his rhetoric slippery.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Trump’s indiscipline and instability are the biggest barriers to securing Republicans’ agenda in Washington today.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018

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