indelicacy

That dances having the character of religious rites were not always free from an element that we would term indelicacy, but which their performers and witnesses probably considered the commendable exuberance of zeal and devotion, is manifest from the following passage of

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

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 Henry Coppee

He had a sort of enamel of good humour which showed that his indelicacy was his profession; and he asked for revelations of the _vie intime_ of his victims with the bland confidence of a fashionable physician inquiring about symptoms.

The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Henry James 1879

This flirtation between Baron Reischach and Princess Victoria formed the theme of quite a number of the anonymous letters, in which the princess was charged with every kind of indelicacy, while the unfortunate baron was ridiculed in connection with the modernity of his nobility.

The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

English literature's debt to, 98; his "indelicacy," 99; irrelevancy, 99;

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

M. and Madame des Vanneaulx, who had accused the murderer of "indelicacy," changed their opinion entirely when he made this restitution.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

In a move that demonstrated either startling indelicacy or the full measure of his pique, he wrote in July to Esther Reed to suggest that she deposit in the bank the proceeds of her fund-raising.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

It is the rare utterance that goes by without some similar indelicacy.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

Morris was not above such indelicacy himself, however.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Morris was not above such indelicacy himself, however.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010