indelicacy
(noun) an impolite act or expression
indelicacy
(noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
indelicacy (countable and uncountable, plural indelicacies)
(uncountable) The condition of being indelicate.
(countable) An indelicate act or statement.
Source: Wiktionary
In*del"i*ca*cy, n.; pl. Indelicacies. Etym: [From Indelicate.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
