indelicately
- a word derived from indelicate.
Example Sentences
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The less exciting powers are often comic in their own right, such as one character’s ability to produce 3-D copies, laboriously and indelicately, from his own body.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Alden’s original inspiration, he says in the program notes, was the famous gold-laced bathroom in a certain Manhattan tower and its indelicately boastful occupant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
Because 100 percent is all the percent available, Sullivan shared those thoughts with the officiating crew, perhaps a bit indelicately.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018
Photograph by Mark Peckmezian for Bloomberg BusinessweekThe view of Central Park that Barnett indelicately calls “the money shot”
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 2, 2014
Pita took it and blew her nose into it indelicately.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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