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Significados de indelicate en inglés

In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.

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Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct.

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