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indelicacy
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of INDELICACY
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste <the indelicacy of their dinner conversation made the other guests wince in embarrassment>
Synonyms coarseness, commonness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, grossness, indelicacy, indelicateness, lowness, raffishness, rawness, roughness, rudeness, tastelessness
Related Words boorishness, brutishness, churlishness, clownishness, loutishness, rowdiness, rusticity, uncouthness; artlessness, gracelessness, inelegance, unsophistication; insensitiveness, insensitivity, thoughtlessness; kitsch, tackiness
Near Antonyms courtliness, urbanity; elegance, grace, graciousness; consideration, sensitivity, thoughtfulness
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