How to Use indiscreet in a Sentence

indiscreet

adjective
  • That might hurt more than any indiscreet attacks on Walden and Stephanopoulos.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Smaller seats, less legroom, meals on a budget, and now someone whispering indiscreet sweet nothings to their lover in my ear.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2026
  • The result is a delightful and highly indiscreet account of the sheer craziness of royal life.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • So in addition to being indiscreet and uncouth, this boor also lacks physical grace.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • And just recently, the situation out there where a woman was just changing her shirt, nothing indiscreet.
    — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • But, with Tommy, Lenny is indiscreet, if not in public view, then, at least, in Felicia’s presence.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The revealing factor/coefficient can be defined for both discreet and indiscreet strategies.
    — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Many in the Washington legal community chide them as being indiscreet, error-prone and outmatched.
    — Philip Rucker, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Many in the Washington legal community chide them as being indiscreet, error-prone and outmatched.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The most successful and lucrative family vlogs are indiscreet almost by definition—and yet the wrong kind of indiscretion can derail the whole gravy train.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This can seem extremely indiscreet – or even performative – because of the way this rakes in a lot of sympathy or commiseration from followers.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This can seem extremely indiscreet — or even performative — because of the way this rakes in a lot of sympathy or commiseration from followers.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • His diaries offered a ‘worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet’ entree into elite gay and artistic circles.
    — Tim Page, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Long before Google’s office suite (around 300 BC, actually), advice on visiting foreign cities was handed out by friends, agents, experts, and, every so often, an indiscreet concierge full of local insights.
    — Emilia Petrarca, Town & Country, 14 June 2023
  • Residents complained to the British press about the associated inconvenience, recounting road closures (leading to, gasp, wet crops), bad American driving, and an indiscreet Secret Service presence.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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