indelicate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDEL'ICATE, adjective Wanting delicacy; indecent; but it expresses less than indecent; as an indelicate word or expression; indelicate behavior; indelicate customs. 1. Offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind.
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