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Definition of Obscenity
1. Noun. The trait of behaving in an obscene manner.
Generic synonyms: Indecency
Specialized synonyms: Dirtiness, Smuttiness
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Lewd, Obscene, Obscene, Salacious, Salacious, Salacious, Salacious
2. Noun. An offensive or indecent word or phrase.
Examples of language type: Ass, Fuck, Fucking, Nookie, Nooky, Piece Of Ass, Piece Of Tail, Roll In The Hay, Screw, Screwing, Shag, Shtup, Cock, Dick, Pecker, Peter, Prick, Putz, Shaft, Tool, Bull, Bullshit, Crap, Dogshit, Horseshit, Irish Bull, Shit, Chickenshit, Asshole, Bastard, Cocksucker, Dickhead, Mother Fucker, Motherfucker, Prick, Shit, Sob, Son Of A Bitch, Whoreson, Pee, Peeing, Piss, Pissing, Bugger All, Fanny Adams, Fuck All, Sweet Fanny Adams, Crap, Dirt, Poop, Shit, Shite, Turd, Shitless
Specialized synonyms: Bawdry, Bawdy, Scatology
Generic synonyms: Profanity
Derivative terms: Filthy, Obscene, Smutty
3. Noun. An obscene act.
Definition of Obscenity
1. 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.
Definition of Obscenity
1. Noun. Something that is obscene. ¹
2. Noun. An act of obscene behaviour. ¹
3. Noun. Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word. ¹
4. Noun. The qualities that make something obscene; lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obscenity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Obscenity
Literary usage of Obscenity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dignity of Human Nature ; Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and by James Burgh (1816)
"Swearing and obscenity are offences not only against all that is sacred, ...
As for obscenity, every one knows it must shock and startle every modest ear. ..."
2. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"obscenity was indictable at common law, on the ground that what tended to corrupt
society amounted to a breach of the peace.17 The word obscenity cannot be ..."
3. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"Alienist and Neurologist 31:497-501 Xov, 1910 TS Legal obscenity and sexual
psychology ... Table of cases involving obscenity and kindred statutes. ..."
4. Popular Law Library, Putney by Albert Hutchinson Putney (1908)
"THE TEST OF obscenity. The test of an obscene book is stated to be whether the
tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The test of the "indecency" or "obscenity" of a picture, within the meaning of Pen.
Code, § 317, prohibiting the selling of any obscene or indecent pictures ..."
6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"According as the element of sexual intercourse is directly or indirectly involved
in immoral practices, we may distinguish lasciviousness'and obscenity from ..."
7. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"According as the element of sexual intercourse is directly or indirectly involved
in immoral practices, we may distinguish lasciviousness and obscenity from ..."
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