Look up: obscenity

1. obscenity
   [n] - obscene word or phrase 2. [n] - the trait of behaving in an obscene manner 3. [n] - an obscene act
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2. Obscenity
   Ob·scen'i·ty noun ; plural Obscenities . [ Latin obscentias : confer French obscénité .] That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; mo...
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3. obscenity
   smut noun an offensive or indecent word or phrase
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4. obscenity
   lewdness noun the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
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5. obscenity
   noun an obscene act
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6. Obscenity
   • (n.) That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.
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7. obscenity
   legal concept used to characterize certain (particularly sexual) material as offensive to the public sense of decency. A wholly satisfactory ... [4 related articles]
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8. obscenity
   obscenity 1. Impurity in expression or representation. 2. That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; ribaldry. 3. Unchaste actions; lewdness.
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9. obscenity
   
   • the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
   • obscene word or phrase
   • an obscene act
   
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10. obscenity
    obscenity, in law, anything that tends to corrupt public morals by its indecency. The moral concepts that the term connotes vary from time to time and from place to place. In the United States, the word obscenity is a technical legal term. In the 1950s the U.S. Supreme Court began to relax rules pro...
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11. Obscenity
    An `obscenity` is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious. The term is also applied to an object that incorporates such a statement or displays such an act...
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