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"So you said nothing of Aiaia." "No. I thought it would be ... " He trailed off. Indelicate, of course. (source)Indelicate = in poor taste
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I finally made it to the landing and, with one final indelicate grunt, pulled the trunk onto it after me.† (source)
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"Well, I mean ...that is to say," Mr. Barbour said, realizing that the question had perhaps been indelicately phrased, "what line of work is he in?"† (source)
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We even slaughtered toads and indelicately placed their mutilated bodies in the holy goalie's upturned palms, staining her with amphibian gore.† (source)
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There is an awkward indelicate ness about the way he handles the baby.† (source)
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My descriptions are so indelicate.† (source)
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I don't wish to be indelicate, honored.† (source)
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"Naw, quick as you are, it ain't worth the effort," Buf said, scratching herself indelicately.† (source)
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He scarcely resented what had seemed to him a silly indelicateness for he knew that the adventure in his mind stood in no danger from these words: and his face mirrored his rival's false smile.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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We've spent yesterday afternoon and all day today trying to find out," began the woman, leaning forward, delicately fingering the indelicate glass as though it were an affront to her sensibilities.† (source)
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I held out a dishclout, and to my astonishment she took it and blew her nose as indelicately and unselfconsciously as an urchin.† (source)
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But, although we've examined scabs and toe jam under the microscope, although we aren't worried by pickled ox eyes and gutted fish and whatever can be found under dead logs, putting this question to him would be indelicate, perhaps hurtful.† (source)
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She put it to herself as indelicately as possible, in the hope that her brain would cry, "Rubbish, you're a self-conscious fool!"† (source)
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Were he and my mother (and here they looked embarrassed and shuffled their feet while finding a word that wouldn't seem too indelicate) "acquainted"?† (source)
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She was as scarlet as if he had put the thing most indelicately.† (source)
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Even when you know he'll do the same to you, it's still a very indelicate thing to do.† (source)
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