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Meanings of indelicacy in английском

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Usage of indelicacy in английском
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They therefore lose all sense of the indelicacy of such a life.
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
2
We feel that to answer that letter now would be an indelicacy.
Mince Pie
3
I would not have committed an indelicacy, even if certain of impunity.
The Inferno
4
By that time he might venture, without indelicacy, to call upon her.
Born in Exile
5
With a scarcely conscious rebellion against the indelicacy of the act I remained.
Can Such Things Be?
6
But it is an indelicacy in you to observe such things.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
7
Thus I felt that there were no indelicacy, this time, in watching him.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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There was an indelicacy about the General's speech, to her manner of thinking.
Mary Gray
9
In that pail behind that door began our first feeble indelicacy.
A singular man
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Everything that savors of indelicacy or licentiousness will be rigorously proscribed.
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
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That, whatever its nature, she avoided as she would an indelicacy.
My Friend the Chauffeur
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This is a mental indelicacy which the ordinary man seldom outgrows.
Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
13
There appears to be some indelicacy in one poet treating another in that way.
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Colle...
14
The sincerity of him was excuse enough for the seeming indelicacy of the question.
Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
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Her being in the wars with men was charged against her as an indelicacy.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
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The indelicacy was not offensive to those who heard it.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
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