(1) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(2) If a teacher regularly strips for his wife as a way of arousing her and she is an indiscreet person who tells this to the parents of his pupils or to them directly, that would be less cut and dried.
(3) You don’t have to go that far to see this as an indiscreet and undignified tale that should not have been told – at least not while Hollande is running France.
(4) Then came a volume on Jesus (in the Past Masters series in 1978), as well as acclaimed and magisterial biographies: WH Auden (1981), winner of the EM Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984: a ground-breaking life of Ezra Pound (A Serious Character: The Life Of Ezra Pound, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1988); Benjamin Britten (1992); and more controversial studies of Robert Runcie (which made use of what turned out to be indiscreet tapes) and the television playwright Denis Potter (which alleged that Potter availed himself of the services of prostitutes).
(5) They are both spirited, fearless, occasionally indiscreet, and engaging.
(6) The sequestrator involved a partner in Price Waterhouse called Larkins, who had indiscreetly told the Irish lawyers in the case that the names of the bank accounts to which the NUM funds were being transferred had come from a meeting with the cabinet secretary who had been accompanied by “an unnamed name”.
(7) Ignorance of simple facts relating to one's structure and development, unquestioning acceptance of tradition, belief in misconcepts, and indiscreet yielding to peer and social pressures are often causative of such suffering, particularly among young people.
(8) They briefly encountered each other at parties; they were indiscreet among aristo-Brits holidaying on the Venice Lido.
(9) BE First, thank you for your vivid description of teachers stripping to arouse their indiscreet spouses.
(10) Asian music artists started the party by announcing that they had heard, via some indiscreet DJs perhaps, that the station was being saved and that Bhangra, Bollywood and all the other manifestations of the Asian sound would continue to be championed by the BBC Asian Network.
(11) "What Park did before Obama this time reminds one of an indiscreet girl who earnestly begs a gangster to beat someone or a capricious whore who asks her fancy man [pimp] to do harm to other person while providing sex to him," North Korea's CPRK said.
(12) The project also urges sources not to make themselves vulnerable by, for example, using a computer that can be traced to them in any investigation launched to identify where leaks originated, or making an indiscreet comment to a colleague or friend.
(13) Nicolas Sarkozy Full name: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa Age: 56 Father: Pal, off-the-wall indiscreet Hungarian advertising executive who claims to have aristocratic roots.
(14) How vulgar!” Some of the most devil-may-care in their sexual pursuits and indiscreet in conversation still operated strict rules of behaviour of which a younger generation might be ignorant.
(15) Peter Mandelson was probably right – if indiscreet – to describe the manifesto as " Blair-plus " on BBC Radio 4's World at One today.
(16) Unlike Prince Charles and, to a lesser if more indiscreet extent, Prince Philip, the Queen more or less never expresses an overtly political view, barring perhaps her support for the 1982 Falklands war, in which the involvement of her own son, Prince Andrew, added a personal element.
(17) I’m not being indiscreet here: these are all assurances that Whittingdale has made public many, many times.
(18) "My behaviour was indiscreet for a place like the garden party," Yamamoto said at a news conference on Tuesday.
(19) What has become much more worrying in the past four months, however, is the price that Britain sometimes pays for an indiscreet foreign secretary at the core of such a hugely serious project as Brexit.
(20) He said just being in Paris was the main advantage he had over journalists who have spent time trailing McChrystal around Afghanistan – Team America were in relaxation mode and were more indiscreet than normal.
Witless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) He ends the song with something that is ostensibly scat but sounds like an old man being scared witless by a spider.
(2) "But she also divides the critics like that other old-school oddball, Norman Wisdom, who was written off as a witless, irritating idiot with a penchant for falling over by some, and seen as a comic genius by others."
(3) More often than not it's passed around at the back for a while, then eventually hoofed witlessly up one of the flanks, where any slim chance of creating bother is immediately lost.
(4) In the end Chelsea needed help to secure the win – and, not for the first time this season, Redknapp’s men came to their opponent’s aid, Vargas giving away a penalty with a witless shunt on Hazard in the 75th minute.
(5) The witless grandstanding by local MP Greg Mulholland in his call for NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh to resign is precisely the sort of intervention that is least helpful.
(6) It is six years, after all, since 2009, the year in which the comedian’s blossoming career and reputation took an abrupt and savage hit, thanks to his unloved eponymous sketch show with Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne (“ puerile and excruciating ”, according to the New Statesman), a critically mauled movie, Lesbian Vampire Killers (“a witless mess”, said the Telegraph), and a calamitous performance hosting the Brit awards with Horne, which even Corden has acknowledged was “shit, because of ego”.
(7) Oh come on, you say: no leading politician would be as witless as to do that.
(8) In a fascinating experiment at the University of Limerick a few years ago, participants were first bored witless by being made to do a repetitive task and then asked to suggest punishments for an imaginary Englishman convicted of beating up an Irishman.
(9) David Cameron and his cabinet currently tell me to be scared witless by Ebola, an attack from Isis, a resurgent Russia and global warming (sometimes).
(10) He slips the ball forward to Whittaker, but with dark blue shirts in the box, the full back blooters a witless effort miles over the bar from a silly distance.
(11) Cameron's critical failure to close a deal with Clegg on 25 extra Tory seats, coupled with his witless aid to Ukip, makes a Labour return to power more likely.
(12) Liverpool reached Wembley the way their journey in the Capital One Cup had begun against Carlisle United; requiring penalties to save them from a witless, careless performance that only improved once the Wales midfielder replaced Kolo Touré in the 85th minute.
(13) And the truth is, most of them were never in a recording studio again (2007) ON STEPHEN GATELY BEING GAY I had no idea… on my mother's life (2008) ON USING A "BANG" (BAND AUTOMATIC NAME GENERATOR) Some of the suggestions I got were Perky Gravy, Silk Radius, Witless and Curly Spam (2007) ON THE BEST THING ABOUT THE X FACTOR It's real, everything is real, nothing is staged (2007) ON GIRL BANDS There's a common perception that behind the scenes it's all catfights and screaming rows.
(14) Farron described abolition of the 50p rate as "morally repugnant" and "economically witless".
(15) Not surprisingly, the Russell Group is delighted, the National Union of Students is apoplectic and the Lib Dems are scared witless.
(16) Perhaps failing to reach the Champions League is a mercy: there is no telling what top-drawer continental opposition would do to this bloodless, witless Celtic team.
(17) No, when you're looking after what is in effect a witless midget with a death wish, some things go out of the window, including dressing yourself.
(18) ML BBC2 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Glue Those keen to write off all homegrown E4 dramas as witless Skins knock-offs would do well to check out Glue.
(19) Now it has, and markets are scared witless as a result.
(20) They are dark, unseen enemies, come from far away – and they are scaring us witless.