How to Use indiscreet in a Sentence

indiscreet

adjective

• The Chiltons say the indiscreet manner in which the drugs were retrieved had them fearing for their lives over the next few months.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• Some testers said the deodorant was too big and heavy to use and carry around, and looked cumbersome and indiscreet.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• The show asks the indiscreet coronavirus questions, like can a mask be a fashion statement?
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• The result is a delightful and highly indiscreet account of the sheer craziness of royal life.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• The first Yale student to get into my voluminously indiscreet diary when it’s opened for research a hundred or so years from now.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Why would a lawyer working for the FBI on the biggest case in politics be so indiscreet as to create a record of altering a document in the course of making a false statement of huge importance?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• And just recently, the situation out there where a woman was just changing her shirt, nothing indiscreet.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
• So in addition to being indiscreet and uncouth, this boor also lacks physical grace.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• As with almost anyone who’s dealt with Trump, Zelenskiy has been burned, his indiscreet private statements being released to serve the White House’s purposes.
  — Michael Colborne, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
• Plastic tests that go in the trash are both environmentally less than ideal and indiscreet, Ms. Edwards said: Until the trash goes out, the results can be stumbled upon by others.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
• The app is infamous for allowing users to send indiscreet photos because they are erased within seconds of the recipient viewing them.
  — Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• Two books about his late brother Rob, Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor, paint the surviving Ford as impulsive, undisciplined, indiscreet and a bully.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Many in the Washington legal community chide them as being indiscreet, error-prone and outmatched.
  — Philip Rucker, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Johnson, the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, is famously indiscreet.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 June 2018
• Although no one was indiscreet enough to say so, another possibility seemed to be in the air among Republicans in Coronado.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
• One of his first moves was to fire Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s boastful, indiscreet, and foul-mouthed communications director.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 7 Aug. 2017
• Okay — perhaps indiscreet electronic communications and affairs in the workplace are no big deal in Washington.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• The revealing factor/coefficient can be defined for both discreet and indiscreet strategies.
  — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
• The administrative problem that the redundant joining of clubs and indiscreet bragging over accomplishments once solved has only become worse.
  — Matt Feeney, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
• And besides, Mr Trump’s main instrument in this affair, Rudy Giuliani, makes an exceptionally indiscreet muckraker.
  — Lexington | Washington, The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• Cohn never uttered anything quite so indiscreet, at least in the hearing of outsiders, but made his disdain clear for some of the president's unorthodox economic views (tariffs) and political associations (Charlottesville).
  — David Lauter, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Despite their apparent passion, Juana's husband Philip was frequently unfaithful to her, his indiscreet affairs causing Juana to fly into rages and periods of depression that provoked the first rumors about Juana's mental state.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• His diaries offered a ‘worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet’ entree into elite gay and artistic circles.
  — Tim Page, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• The relationship, apparently consensual, if unconventional, was indiscreet at best, and, because of the woman’s youth and her subordinate position in Hill’s campaign, potentially exploitative.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024