About The Word Indelicacy
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Indelicacy
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What's The Definition Of Indelicacy?
[n] an impolite act or expression
[n] the trait of being indelicate and offensive Synonyms | Synonyms for Indelicacy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Indelicacy: Babbittry | bad taste | boorishness | bourgeois taste | camp | campiness | churlishness | coarseness | crudeness | grossness | high camp | immodesty | impoliteness | impropriety | inappropriateness | incivility | indecency | indecorousness | indecorum | indiscreetness | indiscretion | inelegance | inelegancy | kitsch | low camp | offensiveness | philistinism | poor taste | pop | pop culture | roughness | rudeness | shamelessness | tastelessness | unaestheticism | unaestheticness | unbecomingness | unchastity | uncourtliness | unfittingness | unmannerliness | unrefinement | unseemliness | unsuitability | unsuitableness | vulgar taste | vulgarism | vulgarity | vulgarness See Also | discourtesy | gaminess | improperness | impropriety | offence | offense | offensive activity | raciness | ribaldry | spiciness Indelicacy In Webster's Dictionary \In*del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. {Indelicacies}. [From
{Indelicate}.]
The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a
nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or
refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness;
also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of
mind.
The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair.
Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison.
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