All 5 Uses of
delicacy
in
The House of Mirth
- She had often heard of women making money in this way through their friends: she had no more notion than most of her sex of the exact nature of the transaction, and its vagueness seemed to diminish its indelicacy.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1) *
- She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.†
Chpt 1.8 (definition 2) *
- But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 2)
- In the words preceding it she had conjectured, at most, an allusion to her supposed influence over George Dorset; nor did the astonishing indelicacy of the reference diminish the likelihood of Rosedale's resorting to it.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
- It was as though the sense in her of unexplained scruples and resistances had the same attraction as the delicacy of feature, the fastidiousness of manner, which gave her an external rarity, an air of being impossible to match.†
Chpt 2.11 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (delicacy as in: discuss with delicacy) care and gentleness -- especially speaking or acting with sensitivity and tact
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(2) (delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food