as in offence
a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark
put the incident down as just a youthful indiscretion
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Recent Examples of indiscretion
Ford hoped his suddenly patriotic electorate would forget about the province’s struggling hospitals and colleges, its bonkers traffic, and the indiscretions that have marked his tenure, including a real-estate scandal that is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Sexual patterns and proclivities are mocked, personal indiscretions are laid bare, and there follows a spectacle of viciously eloquent backbiting—and, in one case, bloodletting.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s a time when the super rich ruled, when women’s choices were limited to homemaking and looking the other way at their husband’s indiscretions, both financial and social, and when women who refused to submit to those men were shunned.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Some follow-up communication, apologizing for his indiscretion, is likely necessary.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Sexual patterns and proclivities are mocked, personal indiscretions are laid bare, and there follows a spectacle of viciously eloquent backbiting—and, in one case, bloodletting.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
That’s a time when the super rich ruled, when women’s choices were limited to homemaking and looking the other way at their husband’s indiscretions, both financial and social, and when women who refused to submit to those men were shunned.
—Joan Michelson, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Some follow-up communication, apologizing for his indiscretion, is likely necessary.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indiscretion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscretion
Noun
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The show’s main blunder is that instead of unpacking the various angles of the mob bosses’ corruption, random side stories start popping up.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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But the internal investigation promised by department leaders — a probe of what accounted for the delays and blunders — seemed to go nowhere.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Now in the context of the very obvious dropping of moral guardrails around international relations, other countries will be less bound by a sense of world order, emboldened by an arms race, and will start to take risks and make mistakes.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Lifton remembers telling others in the rare earths industry this would be a mistake.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.—
Colin Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2022
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And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once.—
Ben Zimmer,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2017
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Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Betts grounded into a fielder’s choice and reached via an error on a should-have-been 6-3 putout.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Countless video call gaffes were lost to history during the coronavirus pandemic.—
Katherine Schulten,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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As for their goalie Linus Ullmark, weird goalie gaffe aside, his 21 saves were sufficient for the Senators’ win.—
Julian McKenzie,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Indiscretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscretion. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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