Modifying Another Word

• too: Greig, who was sensitive to anything he considered too indelicate for publication, put a red pencil through some of the cruder ditties.

• very: The blameless expression 'paying lip service ' translates into something very indelicate in German.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: Greig, who was sensitive to anything he considered too indelicate for publication, put a red pencil through some of the cruder ditties.

Modifies a noun

• question: Judging from some of the commentary from Vodafone would make you think an indelicate question had been asked.