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Indelicacy in sentence

6 examples of Indelicacy in a sentence

A week after the visit of the King of ---- to Verrieres, the chief thing to emerge from the innumerable falsehoods, foolish interpretations, absurd discussions, etc., etc., to which the King, the Bishop of Agde, the Marquis de La Mole, the ten thousand bottles of wine, the unseated Moirod (who, in the hope of a Cross, did not set foot outside his own door for a whole month after his fall) were in turn subjected, was the utter indelicacy of having jockeyed into the Guard of Honour, Julien Sorel, the son of a carpenter.
No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;--but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
From him whom you have rendered the happiest of men, Comte de WardesThis note was in the first place a forgery; it was likewise an indelicacy.
If it were not allowable for him to gain _my_ affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?""But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event."
She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct.
'Yes, but a man can't be a wet nurse,' said Pestsov, 'while a woman...''Oh yes, an Englishman on board ship did once nurse his baby,' said the old Prince, allowing himself this indelicacy in his daughters' presence.