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indelicate
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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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    There could be no eldest son for her, and younger sons were indelicate things, necessary, but not to be much spoken of.†  (source)
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    Somehow, there was something indelicate about a girl child sleeping in her father's room, even though the girl was only two years old.†  (source)
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    He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.†  (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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    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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    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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    This will be an indelicate action, which I would not wish upon anyone.†  (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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    It was indicated that they were indelicate, some even said obscene.†  (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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    Spiders, I would say, are indelicate.†  (source)
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