Term Gallery logo

Meanings of indelicate in anglès

In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.

        Related terms

        Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct.

            Related terms
            Synonyms
            Examples for "off-color"
            Examples for "off-color"
            1
            She learned to take a joke off-color and match it in shade.
            We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
            2
            There were the occasional off-color asides he would offer at inopportune times.
            The double bind
            3
            My fellow passenger overlooked the remark, as if finding it slightly off-color.
            The ministry of pain
            4
            And he made an off-color joke that had the convention organizers wincing.
            The Guardian
            5
            I was stuck, an off-color thread weaved into the city's bland fabric.
            Mysterious Skin
            1
            This is just a little off-colour for your 11-year-old eyes,' she recalled.
            News.com.au
            2
            I don't want any of your off-colour stuff from the Drones' smoking-room.
            Right Ho, Jeeves
            3
            The room alternates between off-colour jokes, riotous laughter, and rapt attention.
            BBC
            4
            Further weighing on his standing, Weselsky has made some off-colour comments in public.
            Reuters
            5
            After 27 years of off-colour surname-related jokes I'll be taking up Geffin instead.
            The Guardian
            Usage of indelicate in anglès
            1
            Your over delicate ladies are the most indelicate people in the world.
            Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
            2
            The French are an indelicate people; they will spit upon any place.
            Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
            3
            Remaining in the room while a lady was examined was obviously indelicate.
            Shadows in Bronze
            4
            None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.
            The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
            5
            In terms most indelicate and, frankly, alarming for any father to hear.
            Imprudence
            6
            This line of conversation was indelicate, and both of them knew it.
            The Wolf’s Hour
            7
            They both felt it would be indelicate to renew their former intimacy.
            One of Ours
            8
            I cannot be so indelicate as to attempt to loosen her stays.
            In a German Pension
            9
            I'm sure we have not angled for him in any indelicate way.
            Without a Home
            10
            They saw something delicate which they could only express by something indelicate.
            All Things Considered
            11
            She uttered some indelicate phrase, but I performed no act with her.
            Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 / Erotic Symbolism; T...
            12
            The look on his face indicates that I've said something culturally indelicate.
            What is the what: the autobiography of valentino achak deng
            13
            What I had done was therefore not merely ridiculous, it was indelicate.
            Camille
            14
            A young lady seeking her lover!-notover-modestcertainly-nay ,positivelyindelicate-fie upon me!
            Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale / The Works of William...
            15
            In the brief silence that followed, Longbright decided to ask an indelicate question.
            White corridor
            16
            His seemed to be changing shape in a rather indelicate area.
            Imprudence
            About this term
            More collocations
            Indelicate through the time
            Indelicate across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common