indelicately
adverb
uk/ɪnˈdel.ɪ.kət.li/us/ɪnˈdel.ə.kət.li/in a way that is notsuitablefor asituationand islikelyto beoffensive:
(言语或行为)不适当地,无礼地Would she, heaskedindelicately,everremarry?她会再婚吗?他问了个不适当的问题。
Thequestionwasframedratherindelicately.这个问题的提法相当不雅。
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indelicate
- He wasconfrontedindelicately about theodour.
- They indelicatelyarticulatedan anti-immigrantsentiment.
- Shesnortedindelicately, getting everyone’sattention.
Rude and cheeky
- cheekily
- cheekiness
- churlish
- churlishly
- churlishness
- coarse
- coarsely
- discourteous
- fruity
- gall
- impudent
- offensiveness
- potty mouth
- potty-mouthed
- presume
- presumptuously
- presumptuousness
- ripe
- temerity
- unrepeatable