Only Cora would speak so indelicately in mixed company. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
Did she deal indelicately with an exquisitely delicate subject?. From Wordnik.com. [In defense of Dr. Laura] Reference
Makeshift robes shifted indelicately as Dawson gained her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
But she could not, as yet, bring herself to be so indelicately plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
“It was really said very nicely, Richard — not at all indelicately.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
First, Ross Moody is, in fact, a juicer, as you so indelicately describe him. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
DA strategist so indelicately put it, it has become a racially polarising issue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Obama's opponents flippantly and indelicately invoke race; Obama must steer clear. From Wordnik.com. [Amira Al Hussaini: Obama: When Race Rears Its Ugly Head] Reference
Fidelia snorted indelicately and ruffled Tybalt's dark hair as she strolled by him. From Wordnik.com. [Flint the King]
As I sometimes like to indelicately say, often it's the second mouse who gets the cheese. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2007] Reference
Penny leaned away from him and wiped her hand indelicately under her nose and down her dress. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
Your ships — and I hate to put this indelicately, gentlemen — are the inconspicuous ones. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
"Naw, quick as you are, it ain't worth the effort," Buf said, scratching herself indelicately. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Venetian lions coloured as indelicately as baboons and of shamefully overdecorated Roman eagles. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
As Katja Seizinger, a German skier, indelicately put it, "She's quite crazy and can be very good.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Girl] Reference
Unfortunately he indelicately identified the regions prone to corruption as Africa and the Caribbean. From Wordnik.com. [Fifa has good reason to fear Panorama's exposure of its World Cup 'dirty secrets'] Reference
Men and women are free to combine their egg and sperm as you so indelicately put it outside of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
As Rhee indelicately put it just days after the primary, that would be “devastating” for D.C. students. From Wordnik.com. [Will Gray retreat on school reform? Here are 5 tests] Reference
Many of us actually have real reasons for being angry with her, and say so, sometimes indelicately, I understand. From Wordnik.com. [Seriously folks, you can stop writing about how angry Hillary makes you now.] Reference
The bad boys had had time to catch Carla Lindo and Winger had had time to catch them in an indelicately exposed posture. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Brass Shadows]
His "belly-timber," as old Misson so aptly if indelicately describes it, was mostly worm-eaten or rotten, his drink indescribably nasty. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
That brings us to the subject of our poll tonight, and the question is phrased rather indelicately, but, nonetheless, it is the question. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2005] Reference
As Geraldine Ferraro indelicately pointed out this spring, his African heritage helped him cast his candidacy in a history-changing light. From Wordnik.com. [The Racism Excuse] Reference
Of indelicately pounding, with a stone, upon my head. From Wordnik.com. [Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'] Reference
"They are so grateful!" he added, rather indelicately. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
He talks indelicately like a tea-sipping milliner girl. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
She was as scarlet as if he had put the thing most indelicately. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
Development Company, indelicately put it, "Western countries cannot be trusted.". From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Foolish or vicious nurses may bring it on by handling young children most indelicately. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference
He courted her openly, not indelicately, but with a happy air of respect and self-assurance. From Wordnik.com. [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference
She was seduced at a most indelicately juvenile age by a Major M---- l, who protected her but. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
And several others quite indelicately stated the prices at which different dishes might be had: "Irish Stew, 25 cents". From Wordnik.com. [Ruggles of Red Gap] Reference
Would she indelicately have pursued him to his very bedroom, and there, regardless of his scanty dress, have assaulted him?. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
And to emphasize the adjective she indelicately patted the region of her body in which she believed her stomach to be located. From Wordnik.com. [Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William] Reference
We have nothing like this at home, and as for writers who make a reader giggle almost indelicately often, where are they to be found?. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
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