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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Lack of discretion; injudiciousness.
  • noun An indiscreet act or remark.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition or quality of being indiscreet; want of discretion or judgment; imprudence; rashness.
  • noun An indiscreet or imprudent act; a step showing lack of judgment or caution.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • noun An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence; rashness.
  • noun An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
  • noun A brief sexual liaison.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of being injudicious
  • noun a petty misdeed

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