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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Indelicacy \In*del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl {Indelicacies}. [From {Indelicate}.] The quality of being indelicate; want 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. The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: indelicacy n 1: the trait of being indelicate and offensive 2: an impolite act or expression
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