indelicate

Example Sentences

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Forgive his indelicate language; do not forgive those who resent the fact that the Masterman School once was a rake.

From Washington Post

But he also found Comer’s bill too indelicate, failing to include any directives for federal agencies to develop public health safeguards or policies, or any acknowledgment the pandemic was still happening.

From Washington Post

The less exciting powers are often comic in their own right, such as one character’s ability to produce 3-D copies, laboriously and indelicately, from his own body.

From New York Times

It’s almost an abrupt, indelicate retort to Ingres’ laborious refinement.

From Los Angeles Times

An indelicate visual metaphor, perhaps, but the writer-director Adam Kalderon nonetheless renders his film “The Swimmer” with style and rich psychology.

From New York Times