obscenitynoun
uk/əbˈsen.ə.ti/us/əbˈsen.ə.t̬i/[ C or U ] the fact that something is obscene:
The people who made that movie could be prosecuted for obscenity.
Such deliberate destruction of the environment is an obscenity (= offensive and shocking).
obscenity laws
[ C usually plural ] a very offensive or sexually shocking word or sentence:
He was shouting and screaming obscenities.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- immoral
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- sinful
- wickedness
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