How To Use Indelicacy In A Sentence
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Coupled with the use of her given name, Elizabeth was too flustered to think very much about the indelicacy of the situation.
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Excuse my indelicacy, but how much are you worth?
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This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a brusquerie, and a roughness to the manners.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a 'brusquerie', and a roughness to the manners.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
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But people writing impolite comments online are rarely in delicate situations; they are merely thrilling to their own indelicacy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The high the latest fashion that autumn winter series contains clarity is delicate divine marrow, the outside indelicacy of firm independence shows meticulous woman idiosyncratic.
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My father did not witness enough of our cousin's indelicacy to give alarm or he would have acted.
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At M. Lambercier's a good maidservant was discharged for having once made use of an expression before us which was thought to contain some degree of indelicacy.
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Shameful state includes the exposure of physical indelicacy and off intellectual and moral weakness.
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Apologising for the indelicacy he asks Nelly the amount involved.
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Mr. Grantley, without any indelicacy or mention of their previous meeting, smiled at her when the customary salutations were being made.
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But it was not to be avoided: he made her feel that she was the object of all; though she could not say that it was unpleasantly done, that there was indelicacy or ostentation in his manner; and sometimes, when he talked of William, he was really not unagreeable, and shewed even a warmth of heart which did him credit.
Mansfield Park
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As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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We yearned for private space to read, and we squirmed at the indelicacy of having to pee in public down tubes on the deck.
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Innuendo is only ever really funny in a setting where direct indelicacy is inappropriate.
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If, when you are out, you can inconspicuously run a clean powder-puff over your face, no one will accuse you of indelicacy.
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Being aware of the indelicacy and impropriety of this positioning they helped Lydia remove herself from her post.
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She was divided between indignation at Mr. Bennet's indelicacy and overwhelming pity for Miss Darcy.
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It is delicately judged and, as if to demonstrate his versatility, it is preceded by a great splurge of indelicacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I couldn't believe the indelicacy and brutality of it - you look like a dead body.
The Sun
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She could never quite manage the indelicacy of saying "Godiva," whatever Mrs. Plaistow's figure and age might happen to be, but always addressed her as "Diva," very affectionately, whenever they were on speaking terms.
Miss Mapp
