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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDEL'ICACY, n. [in and delicacy.] Want of delicacy; want of decency in language or behavior, regarding what nature and manners
require to be concealed.
1. Want of a nice sense of propriety, or nice regard to refinement in manners or in the treatment of others; rudeness; coarseness of manners or language; that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the trait of being indelicate and offensive
2: an impolite act or expression

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1712 1. the quality or state of being indelicate 2. something that is indelicate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Want of delicacy, lack of refined feeling, rudeness, intrusiveness, want of regard for the delicacy of others. 2. Indecorum, unseemliness, impropriety, offensiveness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity. 3. Immodesty, indecency, lewdness, unchastity (of expression), foulness, obscenity, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity.

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