English-Thai Dictionary

indelicacy

N ความหยาบ คาย  สิ่ง ที่ หยาบคาย  ความ ไม่ ประ ณีต 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDELICACY

n.[in and delicacy. ] Want of delicacy; want of decency in language or behavior, regarding what nature and manners require to be concealed. 1. Want of a nice sense of propriety, or nice regard to refinement in manners or in the treatment of others; rudeness; coarseness of manners or language; that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INDELICACY

In *del "i *ca *cy, n.; pl. Indelicacies. Etym: [From Indelicate. ]

 

Defn: The quality of being indelicate; want 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

indelicacy

in del i ca cy |inˈdelikəsi ɪnˈdelɪkəsi | ▶noun ( pl. indelicacies ) 1 a lack of sensitive understanding or tact: the magazine printed the photographs with manifest indelicacy for commercial ends. 2 the quality of being slightly indecent: the play's cynicism and sexual indelicacy | such crude indelicacies.

 

Oxford Dictionary

indelicacy

in |deli |cacy |ɪnˈdɛlɪkəsi | ▶noun ( pl. indelicacies ) [ mass noun ] 1 a lack of sensitive understanding or tact: the magazine printed the photographs with manifest indelicacy for commercial ends. [ count noun ] : diplomatic indelicacies. 2 the quality of being slightly indecent: the play's cynicism and sexual indelicacy | [ count noun ] : such crude indelicacies.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

indelicacy

indelicacy noun the magazine printed the photographs with manifest indelicacy for commercial ends: impropriety, unseemliness, unbecomingness, indignity, immodesty, indecency, obscenity, indecorum, indiscretion, immorality, shamelessness; insensitivity, tactlessness; undesirability, unacceptability, impoliteness, discourtesy, bad taste, ill breeding, bad manners. ANTONYMS delicacy; propriety.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

indelicacy

in del i ca cy /ɪndélɪkəsi /名詞 複 -cies 1 U ぶしつけ, 粗野 ; 不手際 ; 下品 .2 C 下品 [粗野 ]な言動 .