INDELICACY

indelicacy

(noun) an impolite act or expression

indelicacy

(noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

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



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