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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         The indelicacy of English comedy.        --Blair.
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         Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
         indelicacy; they would be immoral.       --Addison.
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