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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscretion
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Viewers speculated whether this was a blunder, power play or something else.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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Many of the nation’s biggest military blunders occurred because there wasn’t enough diversity in the armed forces.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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On one hand, speed always enables Chinese players to adapt faster and, if necessary, correct mistakes faster.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Maybe teams won’t make the mistake the Avalanche did and move Rantanen too soon.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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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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Only one major-league third baseman, the San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado, has more errors than Muncy’s eight through his first 49 games of the season.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
27 May 2025
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The poll of 1,136 Democrats carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.89 percentage points.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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Three of the Padres’ first four runs scored via some combination of good baserunning and/or Angels gaffe.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2025
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While speaking at Harvard, the former president made a gaffe and had to be corrected by his longtime adviser Mike Donilon, who is a resident fellow at the school, according to The Harvard Crimson.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Indiscretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscretion. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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