indelicate

• “That was rather indelicate, your request to the lady,” he said to Gustav. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2005
• He refers to Fielding again as “a very indelicate, a very impetuous, an unyielding-spirited Man;” and he also trusts to be able to “bestow a Reading” on Tom Jones ; but by a letter from Lady Bradshaigh, printed in Barbauld, and dated December 1749, it seems that even at that date he had not, or pretended he had not, yet done so. —  Fielding
• It is always indelicate, and may be offensive Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen[1385]. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• And then there is the indelicate issue of the agency's complicity in Bush's torture program. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
• Improvement: if an indelicate toolbar keeps trying to change the default search provider, thus triggering this dialog box all the time, but I don't want to altogether disable third-party new search engine submission, I'd like to be able to disable the guilty toolbar; however, this dialogue doesn't show which one is being indelicate (it could be an existing one that auto-updated, or several toolbars installed in the same IE session). —  IEBlog

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