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.
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n. an impolite act or expression
n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive
Word Usage
"He had a sort of enamel of good humour which showed that his indelicacy was his profession; and he asked for revelations of the _vie intime_ of his victims with the bland confidence of a fashionable physician inquiring about symptoms."