Example sentences for: indelicate

How can you use “indelicate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ethnic terms that seem bluntest or most indelicate are sometimes simply what people call themselves.

  • This was 1923, only a few years after the Boy Scouts had been created, but they had already become a source of indelicate mirth.

  • I don't mean to be indelicate, but "retching" was very close at hand when that person talked.

  • But far more hilarious are those items penned by the Bard that were never intended to shock or amuse a future evil-minded generation such as ours with indelicate, let alone indecent, suggestiveness, Rex Harrison or no!

  • Coarse has undergone a thorough pejoration; once it began to be used for people, in the sense of `unrefined' or `indelicate,' full stigmatization was probably guaranteed.


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