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Recent Examples of indiscretion Some will see this as a stain on his reputation, others will shrug their shoulders and say that football has never been an especially moral place, and that worse things are happening out there than accounting indiscretions. Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025 Smith lightened the level of the indiscretion, which goes deeper in Molnar’s version. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for indiscretion
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Noun
  • Even with good intentions, these salon blunders are better avoided, according to experts.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 June 2025
  • Other big moments in Trump’s presidency include the leak of U.S. military attack plans to Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, what was widely considered to be the first major blunder of his second term.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Here are the five hidden profile mistakes that stop your ideal clients getting in touch.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Jumping onto Andrew Cuomo’s leaky ship was a devastating mistake for the pro-Israel movement.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.
    Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • With very little margin for error, any misstep could lead to a steep correction.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Making on-time payments, keeping your debt-to-income ratio low and checking your credit report for errors can all help boost your credit score and lower your rates.
    Liz Knueven, CNBC, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • However, her most obvious gaffe – fouling Tiffany Hayes down by just three points with 22 seconds remaining and a seven-second difference between game and shot clock – was not her fault.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • That gaffe remains a major celebrity lowlight on the mound a decade later.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025

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“Indiscretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscretion. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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