| 单词 | indelicate |
| 释义 | indelicate (once / 7027 pages) adj Indelicate things are offensive or rude. If you tell an indelicate joke to your sweet, old-fashioned great-grandmother, it'll make her blush. Many people would consider the question, "How much money do you make?" to be an indelicate one — it's tactless to ask it. Dirty jokes are indelicate because they're in bad taste, likely to offend someone. The adjective indelicate uses the "not" prefix in- along with delicate, which here means "tactful and considerate." WORD FAMILYindelicate: indelicately+/delicacy: delicacies, indelicacy/delicate: delicacy, delicately, delicater, delicatest, indelicate, overdelicate/indelicacy: indelicacies USAGE EXAMPLESWe are the losers in a modern game in which only “smart people”, as Trump indelicately put it, know the rules. The Guardian(Oct 16, 2016) And then there’s the indelicate but inevitable question: How much money changed hands at the fair in 2015? Seattle Times(Aug 03, 2016) His indelicate language and behavior associated him with the common man, which was considered a negative. New York Times(Jul 20, 2016) 1adj in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent an indelicate remark Syn off-color, off-colour tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste 2adj verging on the indecent an indelicate proposition Syn indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters 3adj lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct Syn|Ant indecorous indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters impropernot suitable or right or appropriate decorous characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct in good tastesatisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards sedate, staidcharacterized by dignity and propriety propermarked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
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