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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the trait of being indelicate and offensive;

2. an impolite act or expression;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Indelicacy \In*del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Indelicacies. [From Indelicate.] The quality of being indelicate; lack 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. [1913 Webster] The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair. [1913 Webster] Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indelicacy n 1: the trait of being indelicate and offensive 2: an impolite act or expression