indelicacy
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Almost every interviewer he has faced has tried to lure him into some sort of indelicacy.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2020
His indelicacy made him poorly suited to enter the charged world of wolf politics.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
It was an accusation against a close U.S. ally that had never been voiced so publicly and with such indelicacy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2017
"We are mortified and grieved that he should have been guilty of such great indelicacy and impropriety," said the New York Courier and Enquirer, then the country's most popular paper.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2012
We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Memories stirred by Mr. Hartley — an Australian filmmaker who has explored such indelicacies as Filipino exploitation cinema, in the documentary “Machete Maidens Unleashed!” — are not warm and fuzzy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2014
The people of Albany are gracious and kind . . . and seem to be resentful of indelicacies.
From Time Magazine Archive
These indelicacies are mimed in silhouette behind a scrim.
From Time Magazine Archive
For instance, basketball fans know full well the indelicacies of college recruiting but are ready to imagine that their school's pituitary catch matriculated like any other student and went out for the team.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unsavory sorts murmured indelicacies at cutlet stands; grandmothers consulted almanacs to determine a propitious hour for the betrothal.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
