Obscene
[əb'siːn] or [əb'sin]
Definition
(adj.) designed to incite to indecency or lust; 'the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene'-Margaret Mead .
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Definition
(a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
(a/) Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
(a/) Inauspicious; ill-omened.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Indecent, indelicate, immodest, impure, ribald, gross, coarse, broad, unchaste, lewd, loose.[2]. Dirty, filthy, foul, offensive, disgusting.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Impure, immodest, indecent, lewd, four, indelicate, filthy, disgusting,foul-mouthed
ANT:Pure, modest, decent
Checked by Hugo
Definition
adj. offensive to chastity: unchaste: indecent: disgusting: ill-omened.—adv. Obscene′ly.—ns. Obscene′ness Obscen′ity quality of being obscene: lewdness.
Edited by Flo
Examples
- What you are is a foul, deathly thing, obscene, that's what you are, obscene and perverse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was something curiously indecent, obscene, about her small, longish, dark skull, particularly when the ears showed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Obscene your transmission. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Slowly her face relaxed into a smile of obscene recognition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Go then unprintably to the campfire with thy obscene dynamite. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gypsy obscenity? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That we blow up an obscene bridge and then have to obscenely well obscenity ourselves off out of these mountains? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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