I'd like to offer my apologies for being so indelicate.
Source: tatoeba (10671213)
Indelicate
Synonyms for "indelicate" (55 found)
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2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
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4 entriesTranslations
4 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- нетактичен adj (Tactless or undiplomatic)
Esperanto
1 entries- triviala adj (Tactless or undiplomatic)
Hungarian
1 entries- tapintatlan adj (Tactless or undiplomatic)
Macedonian
1 entries- нета́ктичен adj (Tactless or undiplomatic)
Sample sentences
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As late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when "funk" and "funky" were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still were considered indelicate and inappropriate for use in polite company.
Source: wiktionary
Schuetz acknowledges that he knew about the Dale Barbre murder investigation as it was reported in GCN. Yet the Barbre murder saga provided only the skeleton — if I may be forgiven the indelicate word choice — for the story they concoct.
Source: wiktionary
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