Indelicacy

Indelicacy
Indelicacy In*del"i*ca*cy, n.; pl. {Indelicacies}. [From {Indelicate}.] The quality of being indelicate; lack 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. [1913 Webster]

The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair. [1913 Webster]

Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison. [1913 Webster]


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  • indelicacy — index impropriety, indecency, obscenity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • indelicacy — [in del′i kə sē] n. 1. the quality of being indelicate 2. pl. indelicacies something indelicate …   English World dictionary

  • indelicacy — indelicate ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking sensitive understanding or tact. 2) slightly indecent. DERIVATIVES indelicacy noun indelicately adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • indelicacy — noun Date: 1712 1. the quality or state of being indelicate 2. something that is indelicate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • indelicacy — /in del i keuh see/, n., pl. indelicacies for 2. 1. the quality or condition of being indelicate. 2. something indelicate, as language or behavior. [1705 15; IN 3 + DELICACY] * * * …   Universalium

  • indelicacy — noun a) The condition of being indelicate b) An indelicate act or statement …   Wiktionary

  • indelicacy — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, bad taste, boorishness, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, churlishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, high camp, immodesty, impoliteness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incivility, indecency,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • indelicacy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. impertinence, immodesty, impropriety; see indecency 2 , rudeness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An improper act or statement: impropriety, indecency, indecorum. See USUAL …   English dictionary for students

  • indelicacy — in·del·i·ca·cy || ɪn delɪkÉ™sɪ n. lack of delicacy; insensitivity; offensiveness, rudeness, tactlessness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • indelicacy — n. 1. Want of delicacy, lack of refined feeling, rudeness, intrusiveness, want of regard for the delicacy of others. 2. Indecorum, unseemliness, impropriety, offensiveness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity. 3. Immodesty, indecency, lewdness,… …   New dictionary of synonyms

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