单词 | indelicacy |
释义 | indelicacyn. 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). < n.1712 |
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