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Definition of indelicate in English: indelicateadjective ɪnˈdɛlɪkətɪnˈdɛləkət 1Having or showing a lack of sensitive understanding or tact. 缺少为别人着想的；冒昧的，粗率的 forgive me asking an indelicate question, but how are you off for money? 原谅我问一个冒昧的问题，你的钱还够吗？ Example sentencesExamples - As a friend of both those gentlemen, I have to say that I find myself in the indelicate position of having a foot planted firmly on either side of a barbed wire fence.
- He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister…
- Not to be indelicate, but it looks like you didn't really diet for that part.
- He stomped out the restaurant and crossed the street, heading, I'm guessing, for the Pizza Express across the road, who I'm sure would not be so indelicate.
- Combined with a cast featuring a who's-who of Hollywood at the time, the film ends up being an indelicate mixture of the sacred and the profane.
- He shoots me a nervous sideways look, maybe afraid I'll take offense at the indelicate reference.
- After all, with due deference to Her Majesty, it was suddenly beginning to look a little indelicate.
- And I can't help but agree with some of the analysts we spoke to and think the timing of the Lloyds TSB announcement was a touch indelicate.
- No one would be so indelicate as to mention in those whispered after-dinner conversations that these families were slave-owners, plantation landlords, racketeers and exploiters.
- Frank would not be so indelicate as to disclose just which of our 2003 roster is under suspicion.
- It seemed indelicate to ask whether he later married the girl, though I would imagine that he did not.
- There's also the indelicate matter of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of undocumented workers from the Gulf Coast's casinos, restaurants and other service-related establishments.
- Yes, indeed; sometimes when we see them walking down the street it is impossible for us to tell, without indelicate scrutiny, who is a boy and who is a girl.
- Forgive me for the indelicate question, whose decision was it to go with cremation?
- However serious the material, his tone is light, as if it would be indelicate to thump home a message or afflict the reader with anything too distressing.
- Magdalena heard an indelicate snort from David's direction, matched by a skeptical but amused smile from Ketheral, who was shaking his head.
- I have to ask a perhaps indelicate question in this Chamber: Where does that leave the now legitimised sex industry?
- And, precisely because of the ignorance we are trying to remedy, there is always the possibility that the question itself will prove indelicate or otherwise an occasion for trouble.
- He was wondering just who Chanting Breeze might have been and if it would be indelicate of him to ask.
- Which, come to think of it, raises the indelicate question.
Synonyms insensitive, tactless, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet 2Slightly indecent. 稍显下流的；不雅的 an earthy, often indelicate sense of humour 粗俗又常有点下流的幽默感。 Example sentencesExamples - And if you heard the folks from this feisty bit of terra firma, you'd know their accent, not to mention their vocabulary was indubitably indelicate if not incomprehensibly improper.
- Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
- The Sydney Morning Herald described it as ‘the most libertinish and indelicate performance that could be given on the public stage’, and in Melbourne the season was hurriedly terminated when the possibility of a court case loomed.
- The term sounds indelicate, but the practice is quite legitimate.
- How can such an indelicate phrase come from a gentleman like yourself?
- So as you say, sledging originally referred to male cricketers using indelicate language in front of the ladies, but when did the meaning shift to what we understand sledging to be now, to be that of verbal abuse between players on the field?
- Those of you who are still unclear on the meaning behind the Life Lesson Of The Day are warned that the story of how I came to discover this Lesson is slightly indelicate.
- Not knowing who I was, they spoke to me frankly about the gruesome details of their work, and made indelicate jokes, but they seemed more worried about dehydration than about ‘taking the job home’ or losing sleep.
- Naturally, all of these adornments, together with the elimination of ambiguous, controversial or indelicate elements, imply the contamination of the traditional fairytale material.
- He finds Georges sprawled across a chair in the front room, flipping through an indelicate magazine.
- He was so full of gossip about what really goes on behind the scenes in politics that we could barely tear ourselves away from his glorious, indelicate anecdotes.
- Smelly, ugly, rude, indelicate, and adulterous are just a few of the ‘nicer’ comments made about Caroline of Brunswick.
Synonyms vulgar, coarse, rude, gross, crude, bawdy, racy, risqué, ribald, Rabelaisian, earthy, indecent, improper, indecorous, unseemly, unrefined, off colour, obscene, dirty, filthy, impure, smutty, lewd, salacious, raw, lascivious, licentious informal blue, naughty, near the knuckle/bone, nudge-nudge, raunchy British informal fruity, saucy
Definition of indelicate in US English: indelicateadjectiveinˈdeləkətɪnˈdɛləkət 1Having or showing a lack of sensitive understanding or tact. 缺少为别人着想的；冒昧的，粗率的 forgive me asking an indelicate question, but how are you for money? 原谅我问一个冒昧的问题，你的钱还够吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Combined with a cast featuring a who's-who of Hollywood at the time, the film ends up being an indelicate mixture of the sacred and the profane.
- Frank would not be so indelicate as to disclose just which of our 2003 roster is under suspicion.
- And I can't help but agree with some of the analysts we spoke to and think the timing of the Lloyds TSB announcement was a touch indelicate.
- Which, come to think of it, raises the indelicate question.
- As a friend of both those gentlemen, I have to say that I find myself in the indelicate position of having a foot planted firmly on either side of a barbed wire fence.
- Forgive me for the indelicate question, whose decision was it to go with cremation?
- However serious the material, his tone is light, as if it would be indelicate to thump home a message or afflict the reader with anything too distressing.
- He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister…
- And, precisely because of the ignorance we are trying to remedy, there is always the possibility that the question itself will prove indelicate or otherwise an occasion for trouble.
- There's also the indelicate matter of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of undocumented workers from the Gulf Coast's casinos, restaurants and other service-related establishments.
- I have to ask a perhaps indelicate question in this Chamber: Where does that leave the now legitimised sex industry?
- He was wondering just who Chanting Breeze might have been and if it would be indelicate of him to ask.
- It seemed indelicate to ask whether he later married the girl, though I would imagine that he did not.
- He stomped out the restaurant and crossed the street, heading, I'm guessing, for the Pizza Express across the road, who I'm sure would not be so indelicate.
- No one would be so indelicate as to mention in those whispered after-dinner conversations that these families were slave-owners, plantation landlords, racketeers and exploiters.
- He shoots me a nervous sideways look, maybe afraid I'll take offense at the indelicate reference.
- Yes, indeed; sometimes when we see them walking down the street it is impossible for us to tell, without indelicate scrutiny, who is a boy and who is a girl.
- Magdalena heard an indelicate snort from David's direction, matched by a skeptical but amused smile from Ketheral, who was shaking his head.
- Not to be indelicate, but it looks like you didn't really diet for that part.
- After all, with due deference to Her Majesty, it was suddenly beginning to look a little indelicate.
Synonyms insensitive, tactless, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet 2Slightly indecent. 稍显下流的；不雅的 an earthy, often indelicate sense of humor 粗俗又常有点下流的幽默感。 Example sentencesExamples - The Sydney Morning Herald described it as ‘the most libertinish and indelicate performance that could be given on the public stage’, and in Melbourne the season was hurriedly terminated when the possibility of a court case loomed.
- Smelly, ugly, rude, indelicate, and adulterous are just a few of the ‘nicer’ comments made about Caroline of Brunswick.
- The term sounds indelicate, but the practice is quite legitimate.
- Naturally, all of these adornments, together with the elimination of ambiguous, controversial or indelicate elements, imply the contamination of the traditional fairytale material.
- How can such an indelicate phrase come from a gentleman like yourself?
- He was so full of gossip about what really goes on behind the scenes in politics that we could barely tear ourselves away from his glorious, indelicate anecdotes.
- Not knowing who I was, they spoke to me frankly about the gruesome details of their work, and made indelicate jokes, but they seemed more worried about dehydration than about ‘taking the job home’ or losing sleep.
- He finds Georges sprawled across a chair in the front room, flipping through an indelicate magazine.
- And if you heard the folks from this feisty bit of terra firma, you'd know their accent, not to mention their vocabulary was indubitably indelicate if not incomprehensibly improper.
- Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
- So as you say, sledging originally referred to male cricketers using indelicate language in front of the ladies, but when did the meaning shift to what we understand sledging to be now, to be that of verbal abuse between players on the field?
- Those of you who are still unclear on the meaning behind the Life Lesson Of The Day are warned that the story of how I came to discover this Lesson is slightly indelicate.
Synonyms vulgar, coarse, rude, gross, crude, bawdy, racy, risqué, ribald, rabelaisian, earthy, indecent, improper, indecorous, unseemly, unrefined, off colour, obscene, dirty, filthy, impure, smutty, lewd, salacious, raw, lascivious, licentious
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