How To Use Indelicate In A Sentence
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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.
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After all, with due deference to Her Majesty, it was suddenly beginning to look a little indelicate.
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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
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an indelicate proposition
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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.
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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…
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She really could not touch upon such an indelicate subject.
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The advertising community long ago crossed the "indelicate" threshold.
Could This Be a Wedgie Issue Politically?
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They came here expecting to hear taunts and the occasional indelicate epithet from the stands.
A hero from obscurity
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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
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He stomped out the restaurant and crossed the street, heading, I'm guessing, for the Pizza Express across the road, who I'm sure would not be so indelicate.
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He shoots me a nervous sideways look, maybe afraid I'll take offense at the indelicate reference.
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When you reflect upon my unhappy situation, which is attended with so many indelicate and even shocking circumstances, some of which my pride will not let me think of with patience; all aggravated by the contents of my cousin’s affecting letter; you will not wonder that the vapourishness which has laid hold of my heart should rise to my pen.
Clarissa Harlowe
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This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; — as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Forgive me for the indelicate question, whose decision was it to go with cremation?
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However a decision to bar the media could be "indelicate".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She had admired and esteemed Mr. Faulkland prodigiously; her vexation was the greater, in finding her expectations disappointed; and could I have been so unjust to the pretensions of another, or so indelicate in regard to myself, as to have overlooked Mr. Faulkland's fault, I knew my mother would be inflexible.
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
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_solopachium_, meaning a "mannikin eighteen inches high"; Saumasius proposes salopygium, a "wagtail"; several editors have _salaputium_, an indelicate word nurses used to children when they fondled them, so that the exclamation would mean, "what a learned little puppet!
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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He finds Georges sprawled across a chair in the front room, flipping through an indelicate magazine.
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Smelly, ugly, rude, indelicate, and adulterous are just a few of the ‘nicer’ comments made about Caroline of Brunswick.
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The scoundrel was run through with a long iron stake in a most indelicate way and served up to his hungry flock as Roast Flank of Minister.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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After all, with due deference to Her Majesty, it was suddenly beginning to look a little indelicate.
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Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized.
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However serious the material, his tone is light, as if it would be indelicate to thump home a message or afflict the reader with anything too distressing.
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Not knowing who I was, they spoke to me frankly about the gruesome details of their work, and made indelicate jokes, but they seemed more worried about dehydration than about ‘taking the job home’ or losing sleep.
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It was indelicate of you to mention her marriage problems.
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So as you say, sledging originally referred to male cricketers using indelicate language in front of the ladies, but when did the meaning shift to what we understand sledging to be now, to be that of verbal abuse between players on the field?
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The term sounds indelicate, but the practice is quite legitimate.
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Frank would not be so indelicate as to disclose just which of our 2003 roster is under suspicion.
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As a friend of both those gentlemen, I have to say that I find myself in the indelicate position of having a foot planted firmly on either side of a barbed wire fence.
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Would it be indelicate to mention the fee at this point?
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Those of you who are still unclear on the meaning behind the Life Lesson Of The Day are warned that the story of how I came to discover this Lesson is slightly indelicate.
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She really could not touch upon such an indelicate subject.
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He was so full of gossip about what really goes on behind the scenes in politics that we could barely tear ourselves away from his glorious, indelicate anecdotes.
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And if you heard the folks from this feisty bit of terra firma, you'd know their accent, not to mention their vocabulary was indubitably indelicate if not incomprehensibly improper.
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Yes, indeed; sometimes when we see them walking down the street it is impossible for us to tell, without indelicate scrutiny, who is a boy and who is a girl.
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Would it be indelicate to mention the fee at this point?
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This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; - as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature.
A vindication of the rights of woman
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His indelicate remark hurt her feelings.
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How can such an indelicate phrase come from a gentleman like yourself?
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I have to ask a perhaps indelicate question in this Chamber: Where does that leave the now legitimised sex industry?
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Naturally, all of these adornments, together with the elimination of ambiguous, controversial or indelicate elements, imply the contamination of the traditional fairytale material.
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John Page put the situation more concisely, if indelicately, in a letter to Ely in 1947, when Page was reclamation commissioner and the eighty-five -year-old Ely had finally been forced into retirement.
Colossus
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Combined with a cast featuring a who's-who of Hollywood at the time, the film ends up being an indelicate mixture of the sacred and the profane.
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This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct: as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. 50
Chap. II
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Magdalena heard an indelicate snort from David's direction, matched by a skeptical but amused smile from Ketheral, who was shaking his head.
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He was blunt in his bearing, saying things which her father would have called indelicate and heartless, as though they gave him no effort, and placing himself at once almost in a position of ascendency.
The Belton Estate
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Which, come to think of it, raises the indelicate question.
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Not to be indelicate, but it looks like you didn't really diet for that part.
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He was wondering just who Chanting Breeze might have been and if it would be indelicate of him to ask.
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No one would be so indelicate as to mention in those whispered after-dinner conversations that these families were slave-owners, plantation landlords, racketeers and exploiters.
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The Sydney Morning Herald described it as ‘the most libertinish and indelicate performance that could be given on the public stage’, and in Melbourne the season was hurriedly terminated when the possibility of a court case loomed.
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She really could not touch upon such an indelicate subject.
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For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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that said, people from both official SBC groups and those on their own, often do and say things that others might label indelicate, unethical, foolish, and so on...
SBC leaders bear responsibility for Baptists' trouble in Haiti | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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Violent passions, rash oaths, coarse jests, indelicate language of every kind, are precluded and disrelished.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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And, precisely because of the ignorance we are trying to remedy, there is always the possibility that the question itself will prove indelicate or otherwise an occasion for trouble.
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And I can't help but agree with some of the analysts we spoke to and think the timing of the Lloyds TSB announcement was a touch indelicate.
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His indelicate remark hurt her feelings.
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We studiously avoided the indelicate subject of her divorce.
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an indelicate remark
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If realism prevailed, the phrase "indelicate imbalance" might be a more appropriate one to use.
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The woman doing the wedgie dance can't possibly be any more "indelicate" than, say, the ads we see for diarrhea or hemorrhoid remedies.
Could This Be a Wedgie Issue Politically?
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It seemed indelicate to ask whether he later married the girl, though I would imagine that he did not.