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
• This new Biden lacks the old Biden's goofy exuberance, cartoonish loquaciousness and all-around indiscipline.
  — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
• 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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