indiscreetly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an indiscreet manner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "See there be no entrance into princes' courts, either of drunkenneſs, ill-ſpeaking, babling indiſcreetly, flattery, […]"
- "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[…]."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English indiscreet Middle English -ly English -ly English indiscreetly From indiscreet + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more indiscreetly (comparative)
most indiscreetly (superlative)