undiscreet

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ discreet.

Adjective

undiscreet (comparative more undiscreet, superlative most undiscreet)

  1. (obsolete) Indiscreet. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, [], Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection ii:
      For these causes Plutarch [] gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].

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