indelicacy

Example Sentences

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In Amina Cain’s Indelicacy, a woman objects to her husband’s expectation that they will someday have children.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2020

Indelicacy in words has by this time become very much reduced, although here and there we find some cant expressions of the day which shock our sensibilities.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

Indelicacy of her position among an almost exclusively male population.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

Indelicacy would here afford great assistance, from the attraction it possesses for many people and the ease with which it is understood.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

The Indelicacy of which Image we have avoided applying to our British Hero.

From The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love by Fielding, Henry