Indelicacy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being indelicate.
  • n. Something indelicate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The condition of being indelicate
  • n. An indelicate act or statement
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The character or quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy; coarseness of manners or language; offensiveness to modesty or refined taste.
  • n. Synonyms Indecency, etc. (see indecorum), grossness, vulgarity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an impolite act or expression
  • n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive
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    rudeness    coarseness   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    indecorum    scurrility    immodesty    ribaldry    lewdness