Word Finder - obscenity

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Something that is obscene.

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Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"

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An act of obscene behaviour.

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Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.

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Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.

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Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.

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The qualities that make something obscene; lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour.

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The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.

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.

They have little value from a purely literary point of view, and many of them are disfigured by the grossest obscenity.

Why is reference avoided to the north American peace pipe, as if there were some obscenity attached, although none is discernable?

But publications were still subject to the laws of the land regarding sedition, blasphemy, obscenity and libel.

To issue a command " to pull yourself together " to a deeply depressed, inactive patient is an obscenity.

The fragments show fondness for alliteration and playing upon words, skill in the use of rustic and farcical language, and a considerable amount of obscenity.

For example, the hand gesture for OK in the United States means that something is good; this same gesture is an obscenity for the Greek.

Charges were brought against the cast for obscenity and desecration of the US flag - a case that was ultimately decided in favor of the musical by the US Supreme Court.

Taking genre fiction for a ride, Slow Death uses obscenity, black humor and repetition for the sake of ironic deconstruction.

The objection to Husain is not the so-called obscenity of his paintings.

War is the ultimate in criminality, the ultimate obscenity, the ultimate crime against humanity.

The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall in 1928 was so controversial that the author was taken to trial for obscenity - in spite of the fact that "there are no descriptions of sex in it, no rude words."

He sought refuge from inferior society often in nonsense, occasionally in obscenity.

The big man was still alive, curled into a tight ball. Get up. J.J. muttered an obscenity.

However, in the milieu of general obscenity it passes as harmless parlance.

That people are compelled to divert resources in this way is surely a moral obscenity.

The state of the prison, the desperation of the prisoners, broadly hinted in their conversation and plainly expressed in their conduct, the uproar of oaths, complaints and obscenity, the indescribable stench, presented together a concentration of the utmost misery and the utmost guilt."

That all such words as sound in the old translation to any offence of lightness or obscenity be expressed with more convenient terms and phrases."

For as a matter of fact obscenity no less than impiety was charged against him by his ultra-orthodox enemies, and the obscenity no less than the supposed impiety gave them a handle against him before such bodies as the Sorbonne and the parliaments.