adjective
definition
Improper or immodest.
definition
Coarse or tasteless.
definition
Tactless or undiplomatic.
Examples of indelicate in a Sentence
This unprincipled adventurer, even before Catherine's death in September 1548, paid indelicate attentions to Elizabeth.
She is so near to me that it almost seems indelicate to speak of her.
So that was how a lady announced she was pregnant under such indelicate circumstances.
This "Palace language" appears to have come into existence from a desire to avoid the employment in the presence of royalty of downright expressions of vulgarity or of words which might be capable of conveying an unpleasant or indelicate idea other than the meaning intended.
Greig, who was sensitive to anything he considered too indelicate for publication, put a red pencil through some of the cruder ditties.
The blameless expression 'paying lip service ' translates into something very indelicate in German.
Wilson remarks," notwithstanding the acknowledged purport of this worship, it is but justice to state that it is unattended in Upper India by any indecent or indelicate ceremonies, and it requires a rather lively imagination to trace any resemblance in its symbols to the objects they are supposed to represent."In spite, however, of its wide diffusion, and the vast number of shrines dedicated to it, the worship of Siva has never assumed a really popular character, especially in northern India, being attended with scarcely any solemnity or display of emotional spirit.