indelicacy

  • 91crudity — cru·di·ty || kruːdɪtɪ n. indelicacy, rudeness, vulgarity; quality of being unprocessed or unrefined …

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  • 92indelicate — adjective 1》 lacking sensitive understanding or tact. 2》 slightly indecent. Derivatives indelicacy noun (plural indelicacies). indelicately adverb …

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  • 93euphemism — n. 1. Softened expression (to avoid offending by harshness, or by indelicacy). 2. Over delicacy of speech, affected refinement of language, euphuism …

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  • 94grossness — n. 1. Greatness, bulkiness, bigness. 2. Density, thickness. 3. Coarseness, rudeness, vulgarity, want of refinement, ill breeding. 4. Indelicacy, impurity, coarseness, licentiousness, sensuality, brutality, bestiality, carnality …

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  • 95immodesty — n. 1. Indelicacy, indecorum, grossness, coarseness, shamelessness, impudicity. 2. Boldness, forwardness, brass, impudence, want of proper reserve, impudicity. 3. Impurity, obscenity, lewdness, unchastity, smuttiness, indecency, impudicity …

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  • 96impurity — n. 1. Foulness, uncleanness, feculence, defilement, pollution. 2. Unchastity, lewdness, looseness, grossness, coarseness, indelicacy, immodesty, impudicity, smuttiness, obscenity, indecency, ribaldry. 3. Admixture with foreign matter, adulterated …

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  • 97indecency — n. 1. Indecorum, impropriety, unseemliness, offensiveness, outrageousness. 2. Indelicacy, coarseness, grossness, immodesty, impurity, obscenity, foulness, filthiness, vileness …

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  • 98indelicate — adjective likely to embarrass or shock people: He made an indelicate remark at the dinner table. indelicately adverb indelicacy noun (U) …

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  • 99impropriety — noun 1) a suggestion of impropriety Syn: wrongdoing, misconduct, dishonesty, corruption, unscrupulousness, unprofessionalism, irregularity; unseemliness, indecorousness, indelicacy, indecency, immorality 2) fiscal improprieties Syn …

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  • 100bawdy — adj 1. obscene, pornographic, vulgar, filthy, dirty, smutty, Sl. raunchy, scatalogical; gross, crude, coarse; indecent, ribald, risque, off color, lewd; shameless, immodest, indecorous, unseemly, improper, indelicate, rude. 2. lustful,… …

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