indelicate
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But she said recent trimming has been indelicate at best.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
It’s tantalizingly oddball and indelicate: a combined daymare and night odyssey that scratches until a feral hidden strength is revealed in the misfit main character, captivatingly played by Indian star Radhika Apte.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula wrote to the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, that the tensions between the two sides are due to what he called U.N. spokesman Mathias Gillman’s indelicate and inopportune statements.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022
The government said that the spokesman, Mathias Gillmann, had made "indelicate and inappropriate" statements which contributed to the tensions between the population and MONUSCO.
From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2022
I finally made it to the landing and, with one final indelicate grunt, pulled the trunk onto it after me.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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