indelicate
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: Indelicate insinuations concerning the personal ability and public integrity of the Secretary of War.
From Time Magazine Archive
They do a lot of other things, Indelicate to tell 'Til you begin to speculate, 'God!
From Time Magazine Archive
Indelicate witticisms and levity, until then sporadic in Jewish literature, were by him introduced as a regular feature.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav
Indelicate friend that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it.
From The Deputy of Arcis by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Indelicate, in-del′i-kāt, adj. offensive to good manners or purity of mind: coarse.--n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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