Definitionadj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
Last update: July 1, 2015
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It was indelicate of you to mention her marriage problem. [adjective]
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This "Palace language" appears to have come into existence from a desire to avoid the employment in the presence of royalty of downright expressions of vulgarity or of words which might be capable of conveying an unpleasant or indelicate idea other than the meaning intended. [adjective]
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"Then," said Vere, "though what you ask is premature, indelicate, and unjust towards my character, yet, Sir Frederick, give me your hand--my daughter shall be your wife." [adjective]
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From everything in the least indelicate her finebred nature instinctively recoiled. [adjective]
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Cherry-pie would have felt that a more definite word was indelicate. [Please select]
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* They are undoubtedly love-letters, and they contain one indelicate expression. [Please select]
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"And still thee continues such unbecoming and vastly indelicate behaviour." [Please select]
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"And why more indelicate than the men who'd come." [Please select]
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