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indelicacy|ɪnˈdɛlɪkəsɪ|
[in-3: see next and -acy.]
Want of delicacy; want of a nice sense of propriety, refinement, or good taste; coarseness of character, manners, etc.
1712Steele Spect. No. 286 ⁋1 Your Papers would be chargeable with something worse than Indelicacy, they would be Immoral. 1766Cole in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 486, I hope you will pardon the indelicacy of the expression. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 177 The indelicacy of this animal [the pig] is..rather in our apprehensions than in its nature. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India (1826) I. 398 The indelicacy of the Hindus. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 316 That indelicacy which was the singular blemish of his character. |