(formal) likely to be thought rude or embarrassing:
indelicate questions / comments * We studiously avoided the indelicate subject of her divorce.
indelicacy noun [U]
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Is indelicate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, indelicate is tagged as adjective.
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