INDISCRETION in a Sentence
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Example sentences for INDISCRETION, such as:
1. He had committed a minor sexual indiscretion.
2. I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many years ago, I was guilty of an indiscretion.
3. Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
4. I am fully convinced that the story which led me to commit this indiscretion is absolutely false and unworthy of you.
5. Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.
2. I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many years ago, I was guilty of an indiscretion.
3. Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
4. I am fully convinced that the story which led me to commit this indiscretion is absolutely false and unworthy of you.
5. Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INDISCRETION
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indiscretion
n. lack of sound judgment; lack of discretion
Classic Sentence:
1 Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
2 I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many years ago, I was guilty of an indiscretion.
3 Yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
4 Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
5 There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
6 How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.
Example Sentence:
1 I am fully convinced that the story which led me to commit this indiscretion is absolutely false and unworthy of you.
2 He had committed a minor sexual indiscretion.