What's the difference between indelicate and tasteless?

Indelicate


Definition:

  • (a.) Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (2) An analysis of insertions and deletions (indels) occurring in a databank of multiple sequence alignments based on protein tertiary structure is reported.
  • (3) Unfortunately for Ban, however, his leadership at the UN is indelibly associated with precisely the kind of diplomatic dysfunction put on display at such mega-conferences.
  • (4) The scene changed, my life had changed, and I moved into legal and more indelible forms of self-expression.
  • (5) I had a ball!” Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth’s damned spot, left an indelible mark.
  • (6) Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 months to combat international poaching syndicates.
  • (7) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
  • (8) But the brutal conflict of the Thrilla in Manila is the one indelibly etched into boxing history.
  • (9) Except that there was a wind - a gale of ideas, music, appearance and lifestyle which would leave its indelible mark on Western society, and beyond.
  • (10) The present report represents an extension of initial 3H-proline autoradiographic studies designed to provide, at both the cytologic and histologic levels, an indelible topographic record of skeletal events in aging mice.
  • (11) Deliberate hypotension can reduce major blood loss and indelicate operations can produce a drier field increasing the ease of surgery and the likelihood of a good result.
  • (12) However, by 1884, Osler had already left his indelible imprint on the students (both medical and veterinary) he had taught in Montreal, one of whom took over the teaching of pathology in the veterinary college.
  • (13) A former West Australian attorney general , Jim McGinty, told the Age newspaper that the image of her splashed across media outlets left an indelible impression.
  • (14) And though the names and faces of many who were lynched have slipped from the pages of history, their deaths, the report argues, have left an indelible mark on race relations in America.
  • (15) Not only have they left an indelible mark on American life, but the Obamas are a couple of the most beloved national figures right now,” said Neil Sroka , communications director for Democracy for America who was an Obama campaign staffer in 2007-2008.
  • (16) It left indelible marks on the island’s political and education systems, both of which are closely modelled on those of the UK.
  • (17) A quick, simple method of doing this would be to provide patients' with a plastic card, similar to a credit card, with instructions and details of the reaction written on it with an indelible pen.
  • (18) To mark his appointment, Grohl wrote a personal blogpost about how record-shopping and music discovery had left an indelible mark on his own life.
  • (19) More than 60 people were killed in Taliban attacks on Saturday, with dozens more injured including 11 men whose index fingers were cut off by the Taliban because they were stained with the indelible ink that marked them out as voters.
  • (20) Or has 1984's winner The Bone People , alone, left an indelible scar?

Tasteless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
  • (a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
  • (a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
  • (2) Not all the jokes land, and some of the tastelessness may inspire groans.
  • (3) Birds, such as quail and chickens, that eat relatively tasteless food rely more on color than on flavor cues when forming learned food aversions.
  • (4) Tasteless imagery like this is the play's currency; it forces us, according to its co-director, Ultz, "to go to some dirty, ugly places.
  • (5) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
  • (6) It’s easy to miss something that’s invisible, silent, odourless and tasteless.
  • (7) It is important to note that this series of tripeptides (analogous to the previously reported dipeptides) goes from sweet to bitter to tasteless as the ring size of the C-terminal amino acid increases.
  • (8) The St Louis Police Officers Association claimed that officers found the actions of Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kenny Britt, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Tre Mason to be “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory”, and demanded that they be disciplined.
  • (9) The efficacy of a virtually tasteless glucose polymer in testing carbohydrate tolerance in pregnancy was determined.
  • (10) Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colourless, odourless, tasteless and non-irritating gas and may therefore be inhaled in large quantities by the victim without his realizing it.
  • (11) It would be imprudent to discuss them with rivals, and tasteless to admit their existence in polite company.
  • (12) The subjects were not informed about the composition of the NPM, which they rated as tasteless and unappetizing.
  • (13) A hairless mons pubis simply does not accessorise well with one's kale, cucumber and pear juice, you see, and kale juice is just so terribly, terribly NOW, you know, what with it being tasteless, sugar-free and overpriced.
  • (14) Her address ranged from the hilarious to the edgy, leading to days of controversy, but sparked by the tasteless digs she made at right-wing pundit Rush Limbaugh, not the fact that she is a lesbian or black.
  • (15) Island Records have not decided anything yet concerning any kind of recorded memorial (for example a “Best of” which could utilize the four recently recorded tracks) and, sure, it might be cited as a tasteless gesture – but Nick Drake’s music should be heard by more people.
  • (16) The oral solution was tasteless and had no, or minimal, side effects.
  • (17) The room is crammed with memorabilia – a programme from 1967 when QPR won the League Cup and a picture of footballing hero Rodney Marsh, any number of Beatles trinkets (mainly from the Revolver album), a ferocious metal bell presented by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a Margaret Thatcher nut cracker ("It strikes me as pretty tasteless.
  • (18) There's a bit on the pulpy flamboyance of Italy's giallo thrillers, a segment on Argento's peerlessly tasteless memorabilia shop ("Is that a torso?")
  • (19) It’s a gelatinous texture that we are not used to,” admits Gonzalez, adding that while the membrane is tasteless some people who have tested it preferred not to eat it.
  • (20) Barber said the T-shirts were "tasteless and totally inappropriate".

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