According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
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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