Indelicacies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           The indelicacy of English comedy.        --Blair.
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           Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
           indelicacy; they would be immoral.       --Addison.
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