Thesaurus: indelicacy

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1. n. 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.
2. n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive
3. n. an impolite act or expression
4. 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.
5. The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nicesense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners,language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensiveto refined taste or purity of mind.The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair.Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; theywould be immoral. Addison.
6. n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive n. an impolite act or expression