indecency
/ɪnˈdiːsnsi
/noun (plural indecencies) [mass noun]
1Indecent behaviour: seven offences of rape and indecency...
- Keith was convicted of five gross indecency and three indecent assault charges at Swindon Crown Court on Tuesday.
- Ward will be charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency and public intoxication at the Calgary courthouse on Monday.
- That case, in combination with the more recent controversy, shows why it's time to get rid of broadcast indecency law forever.
Synonyms
indecent behaviour, gross indecency, pornography;
obscenity, rudeness, coarseness, dirtiness, smuttiness, vulgarity, grossness, crudity, crudeness, bawdiness, lewdness, raciness, salaciousness, wickedness, impropriety, indelicacy, unseemliness, impurity, ribaldry, lasciviousness, licentiousness;
prurience, profanity, foulness, vileness
1.1 [count noun] An indecent act or expression: schoolboy indecencies...
- And those who shun the great sins and indecencies, and whenever they are angry, they forgive.
- In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac.
- Sun worshippers at Jomtien Beach this week were disturbed from doing the crossword after a man was observed shouting indecencies from behind an umbrella.
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