noun
- acts, remarks, or behaviors that are inappropriate, tactless, or lacking in sensitivity
Usage: plural form of indelicacy
Examples
- The dinner party was marred by several social indelicacies from the new guest.
- Her indelicacies during the meeting made everyone uncomfortable.
- The politician’s speech was full of indelicacies that offended many voters.
- He seemed unaware of his conversational indelicacies.
- The book catalogued the various indelicacies of Victorian society.
- Such indelicacies were considered unforgivable in polite company.