Indelicate
[ɪn'delɪkət] or [ɪn'dɛlɪkət]
Definition
(adj.) verging on the indecent; 'an indelicate proposition' .
(adj.) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; 'an indelicate remark'; 'an off-color joke' .
Typed by Anatole--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
Typist: Ted
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unseemly, coarse, gross, rude, broad, vulgar.
Edited by Edith
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Coarse, broad, indecent
ANT:Nice, refined, modest, delicate
Inputed by Lennon
Definition
adj. offensive to good manners or purity of mind: coarse.--n. Indel′icacy.—adv. Indel′icately.
Typist: Sanford
Examples
- It would have been less indelicate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Go out of the house, said I, for God's sake; there is something too indelicate and disgusting in your pity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I did not press the matter further at that moment, believing it would be indelicate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Emily, my girl,' said Wardle reproachfully, 'I detest meanness and deceit; this is unjustifiable and indelicate in the highest degree. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Sanford