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indelicacy
noun as in impropriety
Example Sentences
I was listening to them talk of quality and seasonability when the young perfumer, with all the indelicacy of a greenhorn, announced, “I have some oudh.”
Almost every interviewer he has faced has tried to lure him into some sort of indelicacy.
But it would be a shame if the current call for respectful depictions ruled out an approach that can cleave the knot of the subject with splendid indelicacy.
His indelicacy made him poorly suited to enter the charged world of wolf politics.
It was an accusation against a close U.S. ally that had never been voiced so publicly and with such indelicacy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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