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Obscene Definition And Meaning
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 \Obscene"\, 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. -- {Obscene"ly}, adv. -- {Ob*scene"ness}, n.

Obscene Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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