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Indelicacy

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.

The indelicacy of English comedy.
--Blair.

Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral.
--Addison.

Wiktionary
indelicacy

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being indelicate 2 (context countable English) An indelicate act or statement

WordNet
indelicacy
  1. n. the trait of being indelicate and offensive

  2. an impolite act or expression

Usage examples of "indelicacy".

If that was not the indelicacy that outraged the feelings of the Deity, then I know what it was: some Midianite had been pissing against the wall.

Monimia, who, in a most dignified style of rebuke, chid her for her indelicacy and presumption, observing, that she could have no title to take such freedoms with lodgers, whose punctuality and regular deportment left her no room to complain.

Many were disturbed by its tendency toward indelicacy, which was slightly ironic as before Linnaeus the common names of many plants and animals had been heartily vulgar.

Had the king so utterly lost his mind that he was going to discuss indelicacies in front of the entirety of the court?