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indelicacy

/in-del-i-kuh-see/US // ɪnˈdɛl ɪ kə si //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·del·i·ca·cies for 2.

    • : the quality or condition of being indelicate.
    • : something indelicate, as language or behavior.

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Examples

  • 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.