adjective
definition
Offensive to good taste
synonyms
definition
Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly
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Examples of indecent in a Sentence
Carmen looked down, pushing an indecent thought away.
We'd better go in before I make another indecent proposal.
Looking at the question then from the point of view of sexual selection it would seem that a stage in the progress of human society is marked by the discovery that concealment affords a greater stimulus than revelation; that the fact is true is obvious, - even to modern eyes a figure partially clad appears far more indecent than a nude.
The Areois travelled about, devoting their whole time to feasting, dancing (the chief dance of the women being the grossly indecent Timorodeementionedby Captain Cook), and debauchery, varied by elaborate realistic stage presentments of the lives and loves of gods and legendary heroes.
The legend of an indecent consecration at the Nag's Head tavern in Fleet Street seems first to have been printed by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604; and it has long been abandoned by reputable controversialists.
At this important stage in their contest with the crown a mighty ally suddenly offered himself, and with indecent eagerness they hastened to associate themselves with him.
If he was getting ready to make an indecent proposal, she didn't want Katie to hear the squelching reply she had planned.
An attitude so indecent threatened to defeat the very objects of the reactionary powers, and Gentz congratulated the congress that these sorry protests would be buried in the archives, offering at the same time to write for the king a dignified letter in which he should express his reluctance at having to violate his oaths in the face of irresistible force !
It was considered positively indecent to parade ones good deeds.
Well, tomorrow she could look to her hearts' content and it wouldn't be indecent.
Some cobwebbed corner of her mind still considered what they were doing as indecent.
In 1860 she resolved to study medicine, an unheardof thing for a woman in those days, and one which was regarded by old-fashioned people as almost indecent.
It's also a detailed inventory of slang, sexual code terms, metaphors, evasiveness, underworld argot, and indecent language.
A formal not guilty verdict was returned on a 10th count of indecent assault, for which the crown offered no evidence.
Indecent exposure Humans and wildlife around the world are exposed to a cocktail of hazardous man-made chemicals.
In High street could be heard singers, accompanied by a harp and violin, bawling out in vulgar strains snatches of indecent songs.
Further rumors of indecent obsessions with pantomime horses have yet to be corroborated.
In fact, on the early records, he worked with almost indecent haste by today's standards.
Two days later he found a man in the yard outside the same room " in a very indecent position with a drunken prostitute.
It appears that to declare oneself a Stalinist is really indecent.
One of these guarded treasures was a volume of grossly indecent verses by Voltaire, addressed to Frederick the Great.
Even the name is vaguely onomatopoeic and sounds somehow indecent.
His presence was so decent and reserved, that it seemed indecent to squawk about it.
Man jailed over child pornography A Strabane man caught with 530 indecent images of children on his computer is jailed for a year.
At the passover, on the fourth day of the feast, a soldier mounting guard at the porches of the Temple provoked an uproar, which ended in a massacre, by indecent exposure of his person.
During his imprisonment he seems to have learnt to control his passions from their very exhaustion, for the early part of his confinement is marked by the indecent letters to Sophie (first published in 1793), and the obscene Erotica biblion and Ma conversion, while to the later months belongs his political work of any value, the Lettres de cachet, published after his liberation (1782).
The indictment, in eight articles, dealt with his conduct in the Fries and Callender trials, with his treatment of a Delaware grand jury, and (in article viii.) with his making "highly indecent, extra-judicial" reflections upon the national administration, probably the greatest offence in Republican eyes.
In the 16th century we find another Piccolomini (Alexander), bishop of Patras, author of a curious dialogue, Della bell y creanza delle donne; another bishop, Claudio Tolomei, diplomatist, poet and philologist, who revived the use of ancient Latin metres; and Luca Contile, a writer of narratives, plays and poems. Prose fiction had two representatives in this century - Scipione Bargagli, a writer of some merit, and Pietro Fortini, whose productions were trivial and indecent.
His year's enforced leisure he spent in writing indecent stories, coarse polemics, and an autobiography which is described as "a mixture of lies, hypocrisy and self-prostitution."
With many paradoxes, with many criticisms which are below contempt, and many indecent displays of personal animosity - especially in his reference to Etienne Dolet, over whose death he gloated with brutal malignity - it yet contains acute criticism, and showed for the first time what such a treatise ought to be, and how it ought to be written.
With indecent haste he began to devise a scheme for marrying his niece Elizabeth, whose brothers he had murdered but a year before.
Some people call breastfeeding in public indecent exposure, while others argue that this it is a mother's right to feed her baby.
While some states actually have strong legislative wording which protects a woman's right to nurse her baby, other states simply leave out breastfeeding in public when listing the crimes that fall under indecent exposure or obscenity.
While many of her co-stars faded from the spotlight, Moore continued to star in blockbuster films including Ghost, A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, G.I.
Before being categorized as "indecent" by many, he had a few guest spots on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and even acted alongside queen of clean Doris Day in With Six you get Eggroll.
In 1971, her husband Lance Rentzel, who played for the Dallas Cowboys, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure.
In 1991, Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure when he was caught pleasuring himself in a movie theater.
Do you think it's indecent?
A somewhat different criticism must be passed on the Facetiae, a collection of humorous and indecent tales expressed in such Latinity as Poggio could command.
In Filelfo and Valla Poggio found his match; and Italy was amused for years with the spectacle of their indecent combats.
It is now, when carried to the extreme of fashion, highly indecent and must be very uncomfortable.
In 1619 he was accused of blasphemous and indecent writings, and was banished from Paris.
The Spanish and Venetian ambassadors in London were shocked at what they regarded as the indecent rejoicings over Elizabeths accession.
With indecent haste, we were introduced to The Style Council.
Thus, nakedness has been able to be imagined as both an indecent state needing to be covered by "culture" (clothing) and a pure state far superior to the indecent cultural masquerade of clothing.
Some areas have outlawed them claiming they are akin to indecent exposure.
A bikini deamed illegal is a style that is very extreme and one that many may call indecent.
Keep in mind that many states issue fines or even jail time for indecent exposure for wearing an extreme style bikini.
In 1937 men finally won the right to go topless on the beach after the 1936 "no shirt" movement resulted in numerous arrests for indecent exposure.
The gauze look is incredibly sexy, but it still covers you up enough so that you are not completely indecent!