indelicacy
11indelicacy — 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,… …
12indelicacy — n vulgarity, coarseness, roughness, loudness, rudeness, offensiveness; bad form, no manners, unmannerliness, boorishness, churlishness; inur banity, inelegance, uncourtliness, incivility; impropriety, unseemliness, unbecomingness, indecorum, bad… …
13indelicacy — in·delicacy …
14indelicacy — in•del•i•ca•cy [[t]ɪnˈdɛl ɪ kə si[/t]] n. pl. cies 1) the quality or state of being indelicate 2) something indelicate • Etymology: 1705–15 …
15indelicacy — /ɪnˈdɛləkəsi/ (say in deluhkuhsee) noun (plural indelicacies) 1. the quality of being indelicate. 2. something indelicate …
16indelicacy — Want of tact, good taste, or good manners, but not necessarily immorality. 33 Am J1st L & S § 46 …
17indelicacy — noun 1. the trait of being indelicate and offensive • Hypernyms: ↑impropriety, ↑improperness • Hyponyms: ↑gaminess, ↑raciness, ↑ribaldry, ↑spiciness 2. an impolite act or expression …
18Indelicacies — 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;… …
19indecency — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being indecent] Syn. coarseness, grossness, bawdiness, vulgarity; see lewdness . 2. [An instance of indecency] Syn. impurity, immodesty, offense, incivility, impropriety, indecorum, ribaldry, indelicacy,… …
20Impurity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Impurity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity Sgm: N 1 uncleanness uncleanness &c.(filth) 653 Sgm: N 1 immodesty immodesty Sgm: N 1 grossness grossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 indelicacy …
