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Definition of Indiscreetly
1. Adverb. Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint. "She inquired indiscreetly after the state of his health"
Definition of Indiscreetly
1. Adverb. In an indiscreet manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indiscreetly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indiscreetly
Literary usage of Indiscreetly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"The charging me with want of economy is particularly improper in yon, when the
only instance you know of it is my having indiscreetly ..."
2. War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations by Henry Stuart Foote (1866)
"Tl indiscreetly exultant over it, and the North indignant.—Att certain Persons
in the South to bring about the reopening of t can Slave-trade. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1856)
"... Cotton indiscreetly reveals a secret, for which Henry blames Sully—An important
conversation between them upon the plots carried on by the court and by ..."
4. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"... therefore, served him well in not acting so indiscreetly as to do ao.
Yours truly, MALMESBURY. May 24<A.—Kept until past ten in the House ..."
5. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"... heir to suppress the mirth indiscreetly displayed by the other children as he
best could with the agencies at hand. YOUNG EDWARD AND HIS REWARD. ..."
6. The Despatches and Correspondence of John, Second Earl of Buckinghamshire by John Hobart Buckinghamshire, Adelaide D'Arcy Collyer (1902)
"... for such a report it must proceed from the Vice-Chancellor's having indiscreetly
dropt some expressions which he has since had the prudence to conceal. ..."
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