DELICACY

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Traducere în limba română

delicacy substantiv

1. delicateţe, gingăşie; fragilitate; graţie, frumuseţe suavă.

2. delicateţe morală.

3. tact, îndemânare, diplomatic, supleţe (în mânuirea unei situaţii delicate).

4. agerime, subtilitate, fineţe (a percepţiilor), rafinament (în simţuri, sensibilitate, gusturi).

5. scrupulozitate.

6. sensibilitate (a instrumentelor).

7. frăgezime, delicateţe (a vopselelor, nuanţelor).

8. delicatese, mâncare gustoasă; aperitiv;

the delicacies of the season trufandale (fructe, legume).

9. sănătate plăpândă / şubredă, lipsă de rezistenţă (care necesită îngrijire).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Micawber took an early opportunity, after that, of hinting, with the utmost delicacy and ceremony, at the state of my affections.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

If others have blundered, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She is herself the very soul of delicacy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well THAT is an odd kind of delicacy!

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

The delicacy of her mind throughout the whole engagement, my dear madam, is much beyond my power of doing justice to.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The sister, Mrs Croft, had then been out of England, accompanying her husband on a foreign station, and her own sister, Mary, had been at school while it all occurred; and never admitted by the pride of some, and the delicacy of others, to the smallest knowledge of it afterwards.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Among all kinds of people a respect for them in their distress prevailed, which was full of gentleness and delicacy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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