indelicacy

• Philip was gross alike in all his appetites; bacon fat was the favourite food with which he gorged himself to illness;[495] his intrigues were on the same level of indelicacy, and his unhappy wife was forced to know that he preferred the society of abandoned women of the lowest class to hers Footnote 493: Prayer written by Cardinal Pole for Queen Mary: supra Footnote 494: Noailles to the King of France October 21: Ambassades_, vol. v Footnote 495: Noailles to Montmorency, December 5 Ibid The French ambassador describes her as distracted with wretchedness, speaking to no one except the legate. —  The Reign of Mary Tudor
• We should not be inclined to accuse a man of that, who tells us that "a regard to proper times, moderation and forbearance in jesting, and a limitation in the number of jokes, will distinguish the orator from the buffoon;" who says that "indelicacy is a disgrace, not only to the forum, but to any company of well-bred people," and that neither great vice nor great misery is a subject for ridicule. —  History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
• Her husband had hitherto been the great Nestor of indelicacy, and when he was induced to give it up, the rest followed his example. —  The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
• Without the rippling brilliancy of The Rivals, The School for Scandal is better sustained in scene and colloquy; and in spite of some indelicacy, which is due to the age, the moral lesson is far more valuable. —  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
• Feeling that to persist in overhearing their conversation would be an indelicacy, the Heroic Explorer politely leaves the room, and establishes himself on a chair in a gloomy passage outside, where he wiles away the time by rehearsing in his imagination how he will tell off the Chief Custodian when the Person of Importance retires. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913

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