Crossword-Solution: INDELICATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indelicate | a. | Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “INDELICATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not exactly tactful | 1 answer |
| in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | 1 answer |
| Not PC | 2 answers |
| Callow | 26 answers |
| Immodest | 29 answers |
| Indecorous | 32 answers |
| unseemly | 34 answers |
| Indiscreet | 38 answers |
| Malodorous | 40 answers |
| Tactless | 41 answers |
| Presumptuous | 42 answers |
| on heat | 46 answers |
| Earthy | 48 answers |
| Bawdy | 50 answers |
| Unbecoming | 53 answers |
| Risqué | 54 answers |
| Obscene | 65 answers |
| Lewd | 67 answers |
| Inexpert | 69 answers |
| Raw | 72 answers |
| Improper | 75 answers |
| Abrupt | 77 answers |
| Gross | 91 answers |
| Rough | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INDELICATE (5)
Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.
How improperly had she been acting by Harriet! How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct! What blindness, what madness, had led her on! It struck her with dreadful force, and she was ready to give it every bad name in the world.
Not a few there are in our country, who, while they have no scruples against robbing the laborer of the hard earned results of his patient industry, will be shocked by the extremely indelicate manner of bringing your name before the public.
Your merchant, if he was a man of substance, forgot his merchandise, swore that chaffering was more indelicate than blasphemy and curled his beard after the new fashion, and became a courtier.
There it lays, that virgin lawnjerie, for all the county to look at, with pink ribbons run through everything, and the poor Krieger girl never dreamin' she's doin' somethin' indelicate.
Quotes with INDELICATE (3)
It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome... When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?
She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so …
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories — and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1997–2014).