Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Offensive to established standards of propriety; improper. See Synonyms at improper.
- adj. Marked by a lack of good taste; coarse.
- adj. Lacking in consideration for the feelings of others; tactless.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to a refined sense of propriety, or to modesty or purity of mind; beyond the bounds of proper reserve or restraint.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. verging on the indecent
- adj. lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
- adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
Examples
“If realism prevailed, the phrase "indelicate imbalance" might be a more appropriate one to use.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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...”
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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 advertising community long ago crossed the "indelicate" threshold.”
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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.”
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“However a decision to bar the media could be "indelicate".”
“a few transactions which would now be called indelicate and irregular, but which even now would hardly be designated as corrupt.”
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