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Synonyms for indelicate
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-del-i-kit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈdɛl ɪ kɪt |
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Définition of indelicate
Origin :- 1742, "offensive to propriety," from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + delicate. Related: Indelicately.
- adj obscene, vulgar
- Dear me, ma'am, but when nobody will know it, how can it be indelicate?
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Of course it would be indelicate, if not unfeeling, to ask her about it.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 » by Various
- "You are indelicate," said she, and though she frowned her eyes laughed.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- I should never have suspected you of so indelicate an imagination.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- The remonstrant of 1800 said "indelicate," of 1850 "immodest," of 1900 "impractical."
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- It is so unfeminine and indelicate for young ladies to have appetites.
- Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
- It was not, however, indelicate to watch Tallis' face closely; it was expected.
- Extract from : « The Highest Treason » by Randall Garrett
- I would not be so indelicate as to require them on such an occasion.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
- None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- I said: “We will not go into details; the picture always seemed to me indelicate.”
- Extract from : « Three Men on the Bummel » by Jerome K. Jerome
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