An indelicate proposition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An indelicate remark. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : indelicate language. From Dictionary.com.
However a decision to bar the media could be "indelicate". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The advertising community long ago crossed the "indelicate" threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Could This Be a Wedgie Issue Politically?] Reference
A few transactions which would now be called indelicate and irregular, but which even now would hardly be designated as corrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
The woman doing the wedgie dance can't possibly be any more "indelicate" than, say, the ads we see for diarrhea or hemorrhoid remedies. From Wordnik.com. [Could This Be a Wedgie Issue Politically?] Reference
It looked so kind of indelicate seeing an empty dress hung up there that every soul in town knew belonged to me. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
"indelicate" to dwell on it at present, but the foreign minister is the obvious choice. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
"If the question is not an indelicate one," said Fogg hesitatingly. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
"Very indelicate of her ever to have made such a wager," retorted Lady. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The woman began to be still more indelicate in her manner, so that Chia. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The friends of Mr. Fullarton said, it would be indelicate to enter into. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
"To allow my husband to watch me always would," she said, "be indelicate!". From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
It was not, however, indelicate to watch Tallis 'face closely; it was expected. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
It would be indelicate to speak until Tallis felt that he was ready for the surprise. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
Anacreontic, pastoral, and amatory, but containing much that is coarse and indelicate. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
He did not add what he thought, that it was almost indelicate in her to be here so often. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Positively you are not aware of anything reprehensible or even indelicate in what you are about. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"I have a great mind to take you at your word," said Kate; "but no; it is really too indelicate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
THIS time, by the indelicate utterings of the magazines that their teenage daughters are reading. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Tips For Teenage Girls] Reference
Osborne, too, is suitably rewarded; but as this game borders on the indelicate, it shall be nameless. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
This she did, assuming the dress of a man: was it not very indelicate, sir, and could she have been a lady?. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Violent passions, rash oaths, coarse jests, indelicate language of every kind, are precluded and disrelished. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
We may not speak of anything so indelicate as a belly, but we can mention an abdomen in the politest society. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
She talks and talks and talks to me whenever she sees me, and insists upon asking the most indelicate questions. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Nor have I the indelicate wish to close the dreary ceremony of a state prosecution with a vain display of words. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
The knife can be used to cut the meat finely, as large pieces of meat are not healthful, and appear very indelicate. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Why, Minnie darling, you must know that such things are very, very ill-bred, and very, very indelicate and unrefined. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
Of course a chaperone was in the party, but what an indelicate thing for the groom to know anything about the wedding clothes!. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Indeed this trade was pushed to so great a height, that the quarter-deck became the scene of the most indelicate familiarities. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to long fasting, is of the most voracious and often the most indelicate kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
In our walk in life the sending of such lines to a gentleman who had not declared himself would be considered almost indelicate. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
Some young persons indulge a fastidiousness of feeling in relation to this subject, as though it were indelicate to speak of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference
Probably it will still appear to many that Delavel's admission was at least indelicate and inconsistent with his chivalrous nature. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
If she was so much as a rounding error off on her count, her beautiful face would all-too-soon feature the most indelicate of scars. From Wordnik.com. [Seventy-two Hours or Less] Reference
You think the question indelicate, but why should I shrink from asking a question on which, perhaps, the happiness of your life depends?. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
This comic play is a severe but grossly indelicate satire upon the profligacy of Brahmans assuming the character of religious mendicants. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
The fellow arose, cleared his throat and made a laborious attempt to speak a few intelligible words, concluding with an indelicate story. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
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