Thesaurus / indelicacy
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As for the indelicacy and folly of leaving such documents to chance, he cursed it sorely.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDThere was an indelicacy about the General's speech, to her manner of thinking.
MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNANWinona had been quite unpleasantly shocked at Dave's indelicacy, but her mother had been frivolous throughout the affair.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONSuch an interchange of the terms would imply arrogance or indelicacy.
SUMMARY NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, IN 1820HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFTIn that case the under garments are never taken off, and no consciousness of impropriety or indelicacy of feeling is manifested.
A NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS TO THE WESTJ. M. PECKThe habit of rinsing the mouth at table is a disgusting piece of indelicacy, which is never practiced by any well-bred person.
MARTINE'S HAND-BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND GUIDE TO TRUE POLITENESSARTHUR MARTINEHe cannot, therefore, be charged with indelicacy or precipitancy.
HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, VOL. I (OF 3)SIR JOHN WILLIAM KAYEThe indelicacy of Mrs. Hearty's remark embarrassed them both.
MRS. BINDLEHEBERT JENKINSI hated the abominable indelicacy of weighing one against the other, as I had hated the idea of their meeting.
SIMON THE JESTERWILLIAM J. LOCKEAs to any talk of cruelty or indelicacy shown in digging up the dead misdeeds of dead men, it is simply pitiable.
WILLIAM BLAKEALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNEWORDS RELATED TO INDELICACY
- X-rating
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- evil
- filthiness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- wrong
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