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单词 indelicacy
释义

indelicacyn.

/ɪnˈdɛlɪkəsi/
Etymology: in- prefix4: see indelicate adj. and -acy suffix.
Want of delicacy; want of a nice sense of propriety, refinement, or good taste; coarseness of character, manners, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun]
simplessea1393
roughnessa1398
rudenessc1405
unrefinedness1607
simpleness1648
unpolishedness1652
unpoliteness1700
sordidness1704
ungenteelness1706
indelicacy1712
unrefinement1769
ungentility1822
unprinceliness1855
outbackery1961
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 286. ⁋1 Your Papers would be chargeable with something worse than Indelicacy, they would be Immoral.
1766 Cole in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 486 I hope you will pardon the indelicacy of the expression.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 177 The indelicacy of this animal [sc. the pig] is..rather in our apprehensions than in its nature.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. vii. 303 The indelicacy of the Hindus.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 316 That indelicacy which was the singular blemish of his character.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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