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- noun Plural form of
indelicacy .
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Examples
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So, unless we want to have these "indelicacies" held against us (meaning "us" on the left), we shouldn't make too big a deal about this.
Texas GOP Disavows Knowledge Of Racist Anti-Obama Button 2009
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(though currently we bleep rather than bowdlerize) glower from the safe retrospect of history at puritanical editor Thomas Bowdler and his expurgations of "indelicacies" from the works of Shakespeare and other plain speakers.
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It would be nice if Mel Gibson could spare us his personal indelicacies and really move us again.
Girlfriends' Guide: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mel Gibson? 2010
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It would be nice if Mel Gibson could spare us his personal indelicacies and really move us again.
Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mel Gibson? 2010
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Down here mired in the clay of mortal flesh, readers are faced with the gunk and dreck of life, invited to notice what is underfoot, to enter and value the chthonic kingdom and taste its indelicacies.
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts Stevie Davies 2010
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But, you know, with the exception of some certain personal indelicacies, they didn't do such a bad job.
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The right was hers but then again she still had to wait several years because of her perceived and feared indelicacies.
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The right was hers but then again she still had to wait several years because of her perceived and feared indelicacies.
my view…as if Whoopie really cares « Adventures in Juggling 2008
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I know you helped the other day, but this will involve more than bandages … and additional indelicacies.
Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006
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Made not only the changes agreed upon but also cut out several other small indelicacies that I happened upon.109 I think this is now damn good.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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