Why force me to cross-examine you in thisindelicate way?
Some indelicate devil prompted her, urged her, to do it.
I think it's very indelicatetalking about such things.
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.
Nothing could be more indelicate nothing more unfit for his wife.
It would be indelicate even in me to have done that.
In a man, it is an indelicate paroxysm: but in a woman, who expects protection and instruction from a man, much more so.
It was evidently not the idea which shocked him, so much as the indelicate expression of it.
Would Hamlet have appeared less interesting or less mad had he not spoken indelicate and cruel words to Ophelia?
In Otaheite, to appear naked or in clothes, are circumstances equally indifferent to both sexes; nor does any word in their language, nor any action to which they are prompted by nature, seem moreindelicate or reprehensible than another.
Their women, upon the whole, are far from being indelicate or unchaste.
A late empress of Russia, as a punishment for some female frailties, ordered a most beautiful young lady of family to be publicly chastised, in a manner which was hardly less indelicate than severe.
Violent passions, rash oaths, coarse jests, indelicate language of every kind, are precluded and disrelished.
With respect to the Iambics of Catullus, we may observe in general, that the sarcasm is indebted for its force, not so much to ingenuity of sentiment, as to the indelicate nature of the subject, or coarseness of expression.
This she uttered so ingenuously, so frankly, that it seemed not in the leastindelicate or forward, while it thrilled the young commander's heart.
Amidst the bolted lightnings of that sublime denunciation, coarse thoughts, indelicate figures, indecent allusion, flash upon the sight, like gross imagery in a midnight landscape.
Why, during the twenty years that I knew him he never let fall so much as a single indelicateword in my presence.
After a minute of uncertainty, his curiosity triumphed over his discretion and he put, in an apologetic tone, an equally indelicate question.
Meekness had always seemed to him the becoming mental and facial expression for the sex; and that a woman should resent appeared almost as indelicate as that she should propose.
It would be indelicate to speak until Tallis felt that he was ready for the surprise.
It was not, however, indelicate to watch Tallis' face closely; it was expected.
I could proceed still further, till I animadverted on some still more indelicate customs, which men never fall into.
Besides, what can be more indelicate than a girl's coming out in the fashionable world?
The sentiment, that a woman may allow all innocent freedoms, provided her virtue is secure, is both grossly indelicate and dangerous, and has proved fatal to many of your sex.
All that it had of gross he has softened; all that it had of indelicate he has purified; all that it had of passionate he has beautified; all that it had of holy he has hallowed.
The men followed her in a thick crowd, with laughter and indelicate observations.
Routilov babbled on incessantly; told all sorts of tales and anecdotes, some of an exceedingly indelicate character.
I should give the sense of it--neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor indelicate jests.
And you, from your own feelings, avoid what is indelicate and impure in conversation, and yet feel it no restraint?
There is a certain amount of the same kind of indelicate drollery in the play of "The Woman taken in Adultery," in this collection.
Under this view of the subject, he thought it extremely indelicate to resist the admission within the bar of those persons who thought themselves qualified to take the debates and proceedings of the House.
And, said he, if these presents were not sanctioned by custom, would it not appear an indelicate thing to offer these things to a Minister of a foreign country?
This slightly indelicatecomment puts an end to her boasts.
He argued to himself that decent people--and he knew no others--did not care to talk about such indelicate affairs.
Nor when they passed the staircase where he had flung a leg of lamb at some indelicate disturbing tutor, did he feel remorse.
Look deep enough, and you will see what indelicate things are daily done by the respectable for not half so good a reason as the want of meals.
Whence had that ill-advised, indelicategrey bird flown into this great haunt of men and shadows?
He became suddenly conscious that he was doing an indelicate thing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indelicate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
