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‡INDISCREET, adj. Sc. usage: impolite, rude, uncivil (Sc. 1825 Jam.; Cai., Bnff. 1958). Cf. Discreet.Sc. 1724 P. Walker Life A. Peden iv.:
Others . . . gave me indiscreet, upbraiding Language, calling me an old Apostate.Sc. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxvi.:
“I think I never saw so ill-bred a man.” “I can't just say that, Bell,” said her mother. “I'm sure he was nowise indiscreet.”
Hence indiscreetly, adv., uncivilly, rudely (Sc. 1825 Jam.; Bnff. 1927); indiscretion, rudeness, incivility (Sc. 1825 Jam.).Sc. 1721 R. Wodrow Sufferings iii. xii. s. 3:
Upon this the Bishop went off as indiscreetly as he came up.Ib. i. v. s. 1.:
I am told he treated the Chancellor with Indiscretion abundance, and plainly threatned to disgrace and discourt him.
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