Definitions for indelicate

indelicate in·del·i·cate

Spelling: [in-del-i-kit]
IPA: /ɪnˈdɛl ɪ kɪt/

Indelicate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 577 anagrams from letters in indelicate (acdeeiilnt).

Definitions for indelicate

adjective

  1. offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse:
  2. not delicate; lacking delicacy; rough.

Origin of indelicate

First recorded in 1735-45; in-3 + delicate

Examples for indelicate

It was not, however, indelicate to watch Tallis' face closely; it was expected.

It is so unfeminine and indelicate for young ladies to have appetites.

I said: “We will not go into details; the picture always seemed to me indelicate.”

Of course it would be indelicate, if not unfeeling, to ask her about it.

None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.

Dear me, ma'am, but when nobody will know it, how can it be indelicate?

"You are indelicate," said she, and though she frowned her eyes laughed.

I would not be so indelicate as to require them on such an occasion.

I should never have suspected you of so indelicate an imagination.

The remonstrant of 1800 said "indelicate," of 1850 "immodest," of 1900 "impractical."

Word Value for indelicate
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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