indelicacy

How To Use indelicacy In A Sentence

• Mr. Grantley, without any indelicacy or mention of their previous meeting, smiled at her when the customary salutations were being made.
• She could never quite manage the indelicacy of saying "Godiva," whatever Mrs. Plaistow's figure and age might happen to be, but always addressed her as "Diva," very affectionately, whenever they were on speaking terms. Miss Mapp
• I couldn't believe the indelicacy and brutality of it - you look like a dead body. The Sun
• It is delicately judged and, as if to demonstrate his versatility, it is preceded by a great splurge of indelicacy. Times, Sunday Times
• She was divided between indignation at Mr. Bennet's indelicacy and overwhelming pity for Miss Darcy.
• Being aware of the indelicacy and impropriety of this positioning they helped Lydia remove herself from her post.
• If, when you are out, you can inconspicuously run a clean powder-puff over your face, no one will accuse you of indelicacy.
• Innuendo is only ever really funny in a setting where direct indelicacy is inappropriate.
• We yearned for private space to read, and we squirmed at the indelicacy of having to pee in public down tubes on the deck.
• As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible