undiscreet
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editundiscreet (comparative more undiscreet, superlative most undiscreet)
- (obsolete) Indiscreet. [14th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James 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 […].