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
Smith lightened the level of the indiscretion, which goes deeper in Molnar’s version.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscretion
Noun
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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,
10 June 2025
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By the 10th, all those blunders faded into the background of their third win in three tries since Posey’s shocking flurry of roster moves.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Scott, whose lone major was 12 years ago at the Masters, didn’t make a mistake since a soft bogey on the opening hole and looked far younger than his 44 years down the stretch with brilliant iron play and enough putts for a 67, leaving him one shot behind.—
Doug Ferguson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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Status threat, risk of irrelevance, and making mistakes are common barriers.—
Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
15 June 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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The government has admitted in court that his deportation was an administrative error.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2025
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In 2018, a study by MIT Media Lab revealed that commercial AI systems had error rates of up to 34% for darker-skinned women, compared to just 1% for lighter-skinned men.—
Jessica Smith,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Trump’s gaffes aren’t just part of his presidency; gaffes are part of the storied tradition of the American presidency.—
Chris Lamb,
The Conversation,
2 May 2025
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Lutnick’s tenure has been marked by these sorts of gaffes.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Indiscretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscretion. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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