Hypertext Webster Gateway: "indelicacy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Indelicacy \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

indelicacy
n 1: the trait of being indelicate and offensive
2: an impolite act or expression


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