INDISCREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indiscreet mean? 

• INDISCREET (adjective)
  The adjective INDISCREET has 1 sense:

1. lacking discretion; injudicious

  Familiarity information: INDISCREET used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISCREET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking discretion; injudicious

Context example:

her behavior was indiscreet at the very best

Similar:

bigmouthed; blabbermouthed; blabby; talkative (unwisely talking too much)

imprudent (lacking wise self-restraint)

Antonym:

discreet (marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint)

Derivation:

indiscreetness (lacking good judgment)

 Context examples 

We’ll sit up on guard with our pistols, nephew, and I only trust that these villains may be indiscreet enough to attempt it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a letter of mine, Mr. Holmes, an indiscreet letter written before my marriage—a foolish letter, a letter of an impulsive, loving girl.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thoughtless and indiscreet I can easily believe him, but this step (and let us rejoice over it) marks nothing bad at heart.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to interrupt.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The conversation was amazingly indiscreet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, sir, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may tell you—I trust that I am not indiscreet, but half-confidences are absurd in such a case—that he was not entirely happy at home.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will be relieved to hear that there will be no war, that the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope will suffer no setback in his brilliant career, that the indiscreet Sovereign will receive no punishment for his indiscretion, that the Prime Minister will have no European complication to deal with, and that with a little tact and management upon our part nobody will be a penny the worse for what might have been a very ugly incident.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked. "It's full of—" I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)