Thesaurus: indelicate
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
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Definitions
- a. Not word/delicate">delicate; word/wanting">wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
- adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
- adj. lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
- adj. verging on the indecent
- Not word/delicate">delicate; word/wanting">wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; broad; impolite; gross; indecent; offensive; improper; unchaste; impure; unrefined.
- Not word/delicate">delicate; word/wanting">wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, orto purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word orsuggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay.-- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv.
- j:100 s. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent s. verging on the indecent