indiscretions in English

noun

1

behavior or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgment.

he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion

synonyms: imprudence, injudiciousness, incaution, irresponsibility, carelessness, rashness, recklessness, impulsiveness, foolhardiness, foolishness, folly, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, insensitivity, foot-in-mouth disease, blunder, lapse, gaffe, mistake, faux pas, error, slip, impropriety, misdemeanor, transgression, peccadillo, solecism, misdeed, slip-up

noun

imprudence, injudiciousness, incaution, irresponsibility, carelessness, rashness, recklessness, impulsiveness, foolhardiness, foolishness, folly, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, insensitivity, foot-in-mouth disease
blunder, lapse, gaffe, mistake, faux pas, error, slip, impropriety, misdemeanor, transgression, peccadillo, solecism, misdeed, slip-up
injudiciousness
peccadillo

Use "indiscretions" in a sentence

1. And what role did you and Conrad play in those indiscretions?

2. We should forgive him a few youthful indiscretions.

3. There have also been some interesting discoveries about your client's past indiscretions.

4. You paid a high price for your indiscretions, Vasudha.

5. Like anyone his age, he's had a few youthful indiscretions.

6. Despite indiscretions induced by excess alcohol, relations between Stewart and Glenure had not broken down irretrievably.

7. The point rather is to ensure that raw partisanship does not amplify indiscretions as justification for a kind of schoolyard payback.

8. The Arkansans in particular became the public face of the new regime, and so bore much of the blame for its indiscretions

9. M typically shows confidence in the service's best agent but feels a need to rein in Bond for his risky methods and often chides him for his indiscretions.

10. Every communicant must first have examined himself; that is, tried the condition and state of his soul, searched out the secret ulcers, inquired out its weaknesses and indiscretions, and all those Aptnesses where it is exposed to temptation; that, by finding out its diseases he may find a cure, and by discovering its Aptnesses he may secure his