Sentence examples for indelicate from inspiring English sources

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indelicate

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Improper or immodest.

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Genitals that, and I'm sorry to break this to you in such an indelicate manner, may have actually been used once.

Let's confine these clothes to private clubs.It may seem indelicate to mention more personal shortcomings, but medical science now has solutions to many of the sights that so often cause public dismay bad teeth, for example, and big noses.

Where Mr Abe used bluntly to bring up China's human-rights record and its lack of military transparency, people who know Mr Fukuda say that there is no question of his raising such indelicate issues with the Chinese.

But Macintyre probes further; "In the face of Sir John's denial to Labour's Hazel Blears that MI6 was complicit in torture – while admitting that "our people were not trained" for the new threat after 9/11 – no one on the committee was indelicate enough to raise the case of Binyam Mohamed, in which the High Court evidence told a different story".

It was a wholly apposite and joyous moment during a jubilant, deliciously indelicate gig.

Neville is a master of reinvention, but to use indelicate but strangely appropriate urban slang, his shit  just got real.

Recently, there has been a drive against the Minsky chain because it is said their shows are indelicate.

Christie continued, "Any knucklehead neighbor of yours who's telling you, 'Uh-oh, you sign that easement, Christie's comin' in here buildin' showers for people, a bathroom, a hot-dog stand, before you know it there's going to be a Dairy Queen'... Let me use a word that's indelicate".

Gray renders classical cinema even more monumental and painterly than the works at its source, but the solidity of his frames is broken by the crude, indelicate, furious emotions under the surface.

He feels that she has created an atmosphere around herself that has made it indelicate for him to come to her.

As one Iranian-American observer put it, using an indelicate Iranian expression, the leader has a saw in his posterior: he can't go forward and he can't go back.

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