indelicate
adjective
offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse.
indelicateness
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a word derived from
indelicate.
Example Sentences
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He scarcely resented what had seemed to him a silly indelicateness for he knew that the adventure in his mind stood in no danger from these words: and his face mirrored his rival's false smile.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
