INDISCREETLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indiscreetly mean? 

• INDISCREETLY (adverb)
  The adverb INDISCREETLY has 1 sense:

1. without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint

  Familiarity information: INDISCREETLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISCREETLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint

Context example:

she inquired indiscreetly after the state of his health

Antonym:

discreetly (with discretion; prudently and with wise self-restraint)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

It is not necessary that I should prolong a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet.

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

She remembered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)