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indiscreet

/in-di-skreet/US // ˌɪn dɪˈskrit //UK // (ˌɪndɪˈskriːt) //

轻率,轻率的,失言,轻率的说

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.

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Examples

  • The man was filling out a form with questions, but I did not dare to ask further for fear of being indiscreet.

  • Thomsen was either being incredibly indiscreet — or she was fishing for information.

  • The media is full of stories of careers and lives laid waste by indiscreet texts, emails, and other digital communications.

  • In allegedly using his work computer, and his position, to pursue an affair, this CEO was being highly indiscreet.

  • In the course of the conversation, I made a joke—an indiscreet joke, as I am all all too typically prone to do.

  • The indiscreet interest-rate impostors even sent seductive salvos over internal email.

  • It suggested she was indiscreet, had poor judgment, and was insensitive to different groups.

  • A child soon finds out that to say "I won't" when he is bidden to do something is indiscreet as well as vulgar.

  • "I think you are very indiscreet to be out alone at three o'clock in the morning," he answered gently.

  • But Laura Belding could not put her schoolmates indiscreet actions out of her mind so easily.

  • Great injury was thus done to the Catacombs by the indiscreet devotion of those who observed this practice.

  • His presence became known to the authorities and an indiscreet declaration, “Campion Brag,” made the position more difficult.