Navigating this Land Cruiser through conditions that challenge even my built Ford Ranger has become so easy and so smooth that it’s almost obscene.
Inside My Custom Toyota Land Cruiser Build|Wes Siler|October 15, 2020|Outside Online
“It’s completely obscene that oil companies can cause an oil spill and then profit off it,” said Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental nonprofit organization.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.|by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica|September 18, 2020|ProPublica
Smarter people are probably arguing over that now for obscene amounts of money.
This decade’s most important marketing question: What data rights do advertisers possess?|Kirk Williams|September 17, 2020|Search Engine Land
In June, the executive offices of the Metropolitan Opera were broken into and graffitied with obscene messages.
Inside the Metropolitan Opera’s Insane Year|Shawn E. Milnes|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
People who are constantly suppressing the urge to make the most obscene, offensive jokes that spring to mind.
The Case Against Cards Against Humanity: Is Max Temkin a Horrible Person? (Does It Matter?)|Arthur Chu|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Anything involving that obscene level of cash will definitely have juicy stories behind it.
Speed Read: Kenneth Vogel’s ‘Big Money’ Shows How PACs Control Politics|William O’Connor|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A monumental political bombshell, his obscene downfall was a cinematic gimme, sure to set screenwriter hearts aflutter.
French Political Sex Movie About DSK Sets Cannes Aquiver|Tracy McNicoll|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To Helms, LGBT Americans were “weak, morally sick wretches,” and AIDS education was “obscene” and “revolting.”
Ties to Secessionist Sympathizers? Don't Worry, Rand Paul Will Still Endorse You|Jamelle Bouie|December 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Houston said an obscene word under his breath, jammed his hat on his head, put on his coat, and left his apartment.
The Penal Cluster|Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
The reviewer put an obscene construction upon it, and imputed to her his own malignant inference.
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2)|George Jacob Holyoake
It was as though the mud in him had been stirred by an obscene hand.
Boy Woodburn|Alfred Ollivant
Others, round and squat, resembled the fat and obscene deities of Eastern religions.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White
In stanza 28 he has evidently not the smallest notion of the meaning of the word "obscene" as applied to ravens.
Ephemera Critica|John Churton Collins
British Dictionary definitions for obscene
obscene
/ (əbˈsiːn) /
adjective
offensive or outrageous to accepted standards of decency or modesty
law(of publications) having a tendency to deprave or corrupt
disgusting; repellentan obscene massacre
Derived forms of obscene
obscenely, adverb
Word Origin for obscene
C16: from Latin obscēnus inauspicious, perhaps related to caenum filth