Crossword-Solution: INDELICACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indelicacy | n. | 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. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “INDELICACY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the trait of being indelicate and offensive | 1 answer |
| Risqué display | 1 answer |
| commonness | 2 answers |
| impudicity | 2 answers |
| FLAVOUR (ant.) | 2 answers |
| ill taste | 3 answers |
| Bad taste | 3 answers |
| smoking-room story | 5 answers |
| Milesian story | 5 answers |
| banned book | 6 answers |
| illicit love | 6 answers |
| impure thoughts | 6 answers |
| irregular union | 6 answers |
| blue story | 6 answers |
| vulgarity | 10 answers |
| Immodesty | 11 answers |
| unfaithfulness | 16 answers |
| concupiscence | 27 answers |
| roving eye | 30 answers |
| bad form | 35 answers |
| Impurity | 44 answers |
| incorrectness | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INDELICACY (5)
Smallridge, too! Jane actually on the point of going as governess! What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy? To suffer her to engage herself—to suffer her even to think of such a measure!” “He knew nothing about it, Emma.
This vast mysterious Wall Street world of “tips” and “deals”—might she not find in it the means of escape from her dreary predicament? She had often heard of women making money in this way through their friends: she had no more notion than most of her sex of the exact nature of the transaction, and its vagueness seemed to diminish its indelicacy.
When he returns, at five, if his wife is entertaining a man at tea, it would be considered the height of indelicacy for him to intrude upon them, for his arrival would cast a chill on the conversation.
All those questions seemed to Puritan Sutherland in any circumstances highly indelicate; in relation to Susan they seemed worse than indelicate, dreadful though the thought was that there could be anything worse than indelicacy.
JESSAMY Sir, the colonel is gone out, and Jonathan his servant says that he is gone to stretch his legs upon the Mall.--Stretch his legs! what an indelicacy of diction! DIMPLE Very well.
Quotes with INDELICACY (1)
My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile girl. To soothe my guilt, and please forgive my indelicacy, I have convinced myself that I seek to find God again in their arms and their unmentionable places.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).