'Indelicacy' definitions:
Definition of 'indelicacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of being indelicate and offensive
noun
An impolite act or expression
Definition of 'Indelicacy'
From: GCIDE
- 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 which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. [1913 Webster]
- The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair. [1913 Webster]
- Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indelicacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Babbittry,
- bad taste,
- boorishness,
- bourgeois taste,
- camp,
- campiness,
- churlishness,
- coarseness,
- crudeness,
- grossness,
- high camp,
- immodesty,
- impoliteness,
- impropriety,
- inappropriateness,
- incivility,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- kitsch,
- low camp,
- offensiveness,
- philistinism,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- shamelessness,
- tastelessness,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- unchastity,
- uncourtliness,
- unfittingness,
- unmannerliness,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness