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indiscreetly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English indiscreet Middle English -ly English -ly English indiscreetly From indiscreet + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an indiscreet manner.
   • Sadly, all the German officers whom we met during these bloody years of world war, with rare exceptions, were as Armenophobic as the Turks, some expressing themselves indiscreetly, others being more diplomatic. 2010, Grigoris Balakian, Peter Balakian, Aris Sevag, transl., Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, Vintage, →ISBN, page 279:
   • See there be no entrance into princes' courts, either of drunkenneſs, ill-ſpeaking, babling indiſcreetly, flattery, […] 1767, Weever, John, 1576-1632, Tooke, William, 1744-1820, Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent, page 430:
   • If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received. 1563, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church:
   • Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
   • Our body is as a well-set clock which keeps good time; if it be too much or indiscreetly tamper’d with, the larum runs out before the houre. 1640, Joseph Hall, Christian Moderation, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 1, § 7, p. 70:

Forms

Translations (2)

el αδιάκριτα (in a tactless manner) · ca indiscretament (in a tactless manner)