"My grandmother was a suffragette," she said to an indelicate question.

There is one indelicate question, however, that went unasked.

I have no right to tax you with such indelicate questions.

Given the nature of his Government service, guests at dinner parties refrained from asking indelicate questions about his past.

"Other people I think were a little more circumspect probably because they didn't want to ask the indelicate question about compensation."

I thought little girls were taught quite young not to ask indelicate questions.

And forgive me asking an indelicate question but how are you off for money - on the whole trip?

Now for that indelicate question: How much is the case worth?

When he had learned their language, he could perhaps find a way to ask such indelicate questions.

Asked the indelicate question of whether he used Viagra himself, he demurred.