Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; lewd or vulgar.
- adjective Not appropriate or becoming; unseemly: synonym: unseemly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not decent.
- Grossly vulgar; offensive to modesty; obscene; lewd.
- Synonyms Indelicate, indecorous, immodest, gross, shameful, impure, filthy, obscene, nasty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
offensive to goodtaste - adjective not in keeping with
conventional moral values ;improper ,immodest orunseemly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
- adjective offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- adjective not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
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Examples
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He wants only traditional Persian or classical Western music on the government airways, not what he calls indecent, obscene Western music.
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He wants only traditional Persian or classical Western music on the government airways, not what he calls indecent, obscene Western music.
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Attacks on children, for instance, were often classified as indecent assault, not rape - even though the young are often targeted because of the mistaken belief that sex with a child can rid the body of the HIV virus.
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I know not any comment that can be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce many similar ones; and some, so very sentimental, that I have heard rational men use the word indecent, when they mentioned them with disgust.
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I know not any comment that can be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce many similar ones; and some, so very sentimental, that I have heard rational men use the word indecent, when they mentioned them with disgust.
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I know not any comment that can be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce many similar ones; and some, so very sentimental, that I have heard rational men use the word indecent, when they mentioned them with disgust. 72
Chap. V 1792
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However, I am sure that there are chants at the Emirates almost every match which could be described as "indecent" - it perhaps depends on your expectations of the atmosphere, your sense of humour and the thickness of your skin.
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"Programming replete with one-word indecent expletives will tend to produce children" who use them, Justice Scalia wrote.
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Lubna al Hussain could face up to a month in jail because of what the morality police called indecent clothing.
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Facecat: flashing a breast indecently in public is called indecent exposure.
Under The Blanket 2008
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