indiscreetness
- a word derived from indiscreet.
Example Sentences
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Either some one abroad was in collusion with him or perhaps indiscreetness rather than guilty connivance was responsible for his learning what he did learn.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
For her "indiscreetness" Argula was banished from court; and her husband, "for not controlling his wife properly," was dismissed from his lucrative position at the palace.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
My cheeks reddened at the thought of my indiscreetness; yet he was a man to command confidence.
From The Holladay Case A Tale by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
That's quite another thing!'—its rattling indomitability, its loud indiscreetness.
From Queen Victoria by Strachey, Lytton
I am all indiscreetness, and thou all prudence.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah
