- 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive Source: wordnet
- 3. n. an impolite act or expression Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 6. n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive n. an impolite act or expression Source: ecdict
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