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indelicacy
[ in-del-i-kuh-see ]
noun
- the quality or condition of being indelicate.
- something indelicate, as language or behavior.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of indelicacy1
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Example Sentences
As for the indelicacy and folly of leaving such documents to chance, he cursed it sorely.
There was an indelicacy about the General's speech, to her manner of thinking.
Winona had been quite unpleasantly shocked at Dave's indelicacy, but her mother had been frivolous throughout the affair.
Such an interchange of the terms would imply arrogance or indelicacy.
In that case the under garments are never taken off, and no consciousness of impropriety or indelicacy of feeling is manifested.
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