indelicacy

Example Sentences

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His indelicacy made him poorly suited to enter the charged world of wolf politics.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018

It was an accusation against a close U.S. ally that had never been voiced so publicly and with such indelicacy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2017

In the US, meanwhile, it is consumed by feckless millions who harbor no qualms about the indelicacy of the name.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

"We are mortified and grieved that he should have been guilty of such great indelicacy and impropriety," said the New York Courier and Enquirer, then the country's most popular paper.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2012

We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas