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UK
/ˌɪndˈɛlɪkət/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɛɫɪkət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɛɫɪkət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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verging on the indecent
an indelicate proposition -
lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
indecorous behavior
indecorous behavior -
in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
an off-color joke
an indelicate remark
How To Use indelicate In A Sentence
- Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
- After all, with due deference to Her Majesty, it was suddenly beginning to look a little indelicate.
- The interconnexion between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism, and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched, and even to mention it is considered somewhat indelicate. Raffles and Miss Blandish
- an indelicate proposition
- There's also the indelicate matter of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of undocumented workers from the Gulf Coast's casinos, restaurants and other service-related establishments.
- He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister…
- She really could not touch upon such an indelicate subject.
- The advertising community long ago crossed the "indelicate" threshold. Could This Be a Wedgie Issue Politically?
- They came here expecting to hear taunts and the occasional indelicate epithet from the stands. A hero from obscurity
- She would do nothing that could be thrown in her teeth; nothing that could be called unfeminine, indelicate, or undutiful. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite