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Obscene Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Obscene?
[adj] suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
[adj] designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead [adj] offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" Synonyms | Synonyms for Obscene: abhorrent | detestable | dirty | indecent | lewd | offensive | repugnant | repulsive | salacious Related Terms | Find terms related to Obscene: abhorrent | abominable | abusive | amoral | animal | aphrodisiomaniacal | atrocious | awful | barnyard | base | bawdy | beastly | below contempt | beneath contempt | blasphemous | blue | broad | calumniatory | calumnious | carnal | clitoromaniacal | coarse | comminatory | concupiscent | contemptible | contumelious | crass | crude | crusty | cursing | Cyprian | damnatory | debauched | degenerate | denunciatory | despicable | detestable | dirty | disgusting | dissolute | distasteful | dysphemistic | earthy | epithetic | erotic | eroticomaniacal | erotomaniacal | evil | excommunicative | excommunicatory | execrable | execratory | Fescennine | fetid | filthy | fleshly | forbidding | foul | foulmouthed | foul-mouthed | foul-spoken | foul-tongued | fulminatory | fulsome | gaudy | goatish | gross | gynecomaniacal | hateful | heinous | hideous | horny | horrible | hot | hysteromaniacal | ignoble | immodest | immoral | imprecatory | improper | impure | indecent | indecorous | indelicate | inelegant | insufferable | intolerable | ithyphallic | lascivious | lecherous | lewd | libertine | libidinous | licentious | lickerish | loathsome | loose | loud | lubricious | lurid | lustful | maledictory | malodorous | mephitic | meretricious | miasmal | miasmic | nasty | nauseating | nauseous | noisome | noxious | nymphomaniacal | objectionable | obnoxious | odious | off color | offensive | outrageous | Paphian | paw | pornographic | priapic | profane | prurient | Rabelaisian | randy | rank | raunchy | raw | rebarbative | repellent | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | ribald | rich | risque | rocky | rough | rude | ruttish | salacious | satyric | scabrous | scatologic | scatological | scurrile | scurrilous | sensual | sexual | sexy | shameful | shameless | shocking | sickening | smoking-room | smutty | stinking | suggestive | sultry | unchaste | unclean | unpalatable | unprintable | unrepeatable | vile | vituperative | vulgar | wanton | warm | wicked See Also | Obscene In Webster's Dictionary \Ob*scene"\, a/ [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill
looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obsc['e]ne.]
1. 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.
Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew
obscene and uncleanly. --I. Watts.
2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
A girdle foul with grease b??ds his obscene attire.
--Dryden.
3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds
obscene take flight. --Dryden.
Syn: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd. --
{Ob*scene"ly}, adv. -- {Ob*scene"ness}, n.
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