Crossword-Solution: INDELICACY 10 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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
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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.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
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.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
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.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
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.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 2006
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.
The Contrast Royall Tyler 1996

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.
K.J. Bishop The Etched City
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).