Indelicacy

3 definitions found

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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The indelicacy of English comedy.        --Blair.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
           indelicacy; they would be immoral.       --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indelicacy
       n 1: the trait of being indelicate and offensive
       2: an impolite act or expression

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "indelicacy":
     Babbittry, bad taste, boorishness, bourgeois taste, camp,
     campiness, churlishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness,
     high camp, immodesty, impoliteness, impropriety, inappropriateness,
     incivility, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indiscreetness,
     indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, low camp,
     offensiveness, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture,
     roughness, rudeness, shamelessness, tastelessness, unaestheticism,
     unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncourtliness,
     unfittingness, unmannerliness, unrefinement, unseemliness,
     unsuitability, unsuitableness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity,
     vulgarness