indelicacy

indelicacy
n.
1.
Want of delicacy, lack of refined feeling, rudeness, intrusiveness, want of regard for the delicacy of others.
2.
Indecorum, unseemliness, impropriety, offensiveness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity.
3.
Immodesty, indecency, lewdness, unchastity (of expression), foulness, obscenity, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity.

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  • Indelicacy — In*del i*ca*cy, n.; pl. {Indelicacies}. [From {Indelicate}.] 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • indelicacy — index impropriety, indecency, obscenity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • indelicacy — [in del′i kə sē] n. 1. the quality of being indelicate 2. pl. indelicacies something indelicate …   English World dictionary

  • indelicacy — indelicate ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking sensitive understanding or tact. 2) slightly indecent. DERIVATIVES indelicacy noun indelicately adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • indelicacy — noun Date: 1712 1. the quality or state of being indelicate 2. something that is indelicate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • indelicacy — /in del i keuh see/, n., pl. indelicacies for 2. 1. the quality or condition of being indelicate. 2. something indelicate, as language or behavior. [1705 15; IN 3 + DELICACY] * * * …   Universalium

  • indelicacy — noun a) The condition of being indelicate b) An indelicate act or statement …   Wiktionary

  • indelicacy — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, bad taste, boorishness, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, churlishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, high camp, immodesty, impoliteness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incivility, indecency,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • indelicacy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. impertinence, immodesty, impropriety; see indecency 2 , rudeness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An improper act or statement: impropriety, indecency, indecorum. See USUAL …   English dictionary for students

  • indelicacy — in·del·i·ca·cy || ɪn delɪkÉ™sɪ n. lack of delicacy; insensitivity; offensiveness, rudeness, tactlessness …   English contemporary dictionary

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