Example sentences for: indelicate

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • It would be useful to give a bit more information for the guidance of the innocent and unwary: chism is a variant of the vulgar slang term jism or gism for semen, so in the reported use is an indelicate metaphor.

  • I hope you don't find this too personal or indelicate a subject for public consumption, but I am in a dilemma about a relationship.


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