How to Use indelicate in a Sentence

indelicate

adjective

• Many consider it indelicate to talk about such things in mixed company.
• The loss of Lawrence is a huge blow, but at the risk of sounding indelicate, Lawrence was the unit’s best player last season and how did that turn out?
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Posner’s Stupid F-ing Bird, the Arden’s funny play with the indelicate name, got four.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• In many species, males have evolved structures that give them an edge in their indelicate liaisons with females.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2012
• At first, Louisa had been horrified by the clumsy, indelicate house, though her horror was silent.
  — Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• Some in Fall River are less than excited to be known as Lizzietown or Bordenville or any number of indelicate nicknames.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2019
• But an indelicate tweet published on the company's Twitter account said Papa John's drew more attention to the hate groups.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
• Since the 1960s, he’s made rude, indelicate paintings that have agitated and mostly torched any idea of good taste and taken Cubism to unhinged extremes.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• A neighbor having a beef with another mowed a most indelicate word into his yard in Sequim, Wash., about 65 miles northwest of Seattle.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 13 July 2017
• And oversteer never feels more than an indelicate throttle-prod away, especially on damp roads and with modest tires.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 31 May 2022
• The kits sport clumsy, oddly curved, and painfully jagged instruments, including dull saws and indelicate pinchers.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 July 2017
• All of these indelicate products come to us thanks to skin-care companies, launched over the past few years, that are marketing strenuously—some would say, overcompensatingly—to men.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2017
• At the same time, the musician’s indelicate missives compel one to ask just what drove Mozart’s proclivity to fixate on things scatological.
  — Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
• Noom is hardly the only company to be accused of indelicate messaging.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• But ugly stuff too: Tesla’s investor insurrection, thanks (in part) to Grimes’ Boyfriend’s indelicate earnings call comments.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• For example, someone who remains calm and refrains from using indelicate words in high-pressure situations gives off a feeling of control even when those around them are losing their heads.
  — Jon Michail, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• It has been estimated that at least a million limericks — good, mediocre and indelicate — are in existence today.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
• Is this an indelicate time to mention that the Ramblers beat a Tennessee team missing its shot-blocking center because of injury and beat a Kansas State team missing its top scorer and rebounder because of injury?
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Reared in New York's indelicate political culture, Trump does not like to appear meek, using rallies and his Twitter account to lacerate rivals.
  — Paul Schwartzman and Josh Dawsey, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
• Reared in New York’s indelicate political culture, Trump does not like to appear meek, using rallies and his Twitter account to lacerate rivals.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• There is her decadence and indelicate sense of fancy; her fascination with animals and with bodies, both otherworldly and profane.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• Acting Secretary Elaine Duke, another nonpolitical homeland expert, ran into trouble for indelicate comments in response to a question about one of the recent hurricanes, for instance.
  — Laura Meckler, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• While Republicans often run on law-and-order themes, an indelicate approach could carry considerable danger at a moment of such unusual political instability.
  — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 17 July 2016

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024