Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an indelicate manner; with indelicacy; unbecomingly; indecently.

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  • adverb In an indelicate manner.

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Examples

  • In the wake of two failed marriages, however, he now spent most of his time here, in the pleasure palace he somewhat indelicately christened La Maison de Bang Bang.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • In the wake of two failed marriages, however, he now spent most of his time here, in the pleasure palace he somewhat indelicately christened La Maison de Bang Bang.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • When she indelicately requested that he issue her a large quantity of prophylactics, his eyebrows shot up, “Jane, really!”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • As Mayor Bloomberg noted at the bridge naming ceremony—perhaps a trifle indelicately, but that Mr. Koch himself seconded when it came his turn to command the podium—it's more fun to have something named after you when you're still alive to enjoy it.

    City's Signs of the Times Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • FBI officers were routinely sent out to try to squelch rumors around the country “that the director was a ‘fairy,’” as internal bureau memos always indelicately put it.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • As Rhee indelicately put it just days after the primary, that would be “devastating” for D.C. students.

    Will Gray retreat on school reform? Here are 5 tests washingtonpost.com editors 2010

  • FBI officers were routinely sent out to try to squelch rumors around the country “that the director was a ‘fairy,’” as internal bureau memos always indelicately put it.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • When she indelicately requested that he issue her a large quantity of prophylactics, his eyebrows shot up, “Jane, really!”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Did she deal indelicately with an exquisitely delicate subject?

    In defense of Dr. Laura 2010

  • One of Netanyahu's Knesset allies told me, indelicately, though perhaps not inaccurately, that the chance for movement toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state will come only after Ben-Zion's death.

    MJ Rosenberg: Pro-Bombing Iran Is Anti-Israel 2010

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