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indiscreetly, adv.|ɪndɪˈskriːtlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] 1. In an indiscreet manner; with or through want of discernment, judgement, or prudence.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. viii. 74 Somme indiscretly for grace of deuocion haue destroied hemself. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 10 §1 They..doo many times dispose indiscretely and vnaduisedly their landes and inheritances. 1634Massinger Very Woman i. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 368/2 'Twas done indiscreetly. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. viii, It should be a warning to all persons (says she, looking at her daughters) how they marry indiscreetly. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. Wks. 1843 II. 210 Astonished that legislators have so indiscreetly multiplied the operations which tend to weaken its [veracity's] influence. 2. Sc. Uncivilly, impolitely.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 312, I hope you will not use me so indiscreetlie as did one Mr David Calderwood when I was comeing out of Scotland. |