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as in vulgarity
the quality or state of being obscene
parents complained about the indecency of the song's lyrics
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as in unfitness
the quality or state of not being socially proper
that a remark of such indisputable indecency was uttered at a meeting of the school board made everyone gasp
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Recent Examples of indecency
On this day in 1895, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency for his homosexual relationships—a crime in Victorian England.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 May 2026
Though her efforts garnered her hate mail, death threats, and court charges of indecency, EXPORT remained undeterred.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
15 May 2026
That has given the agency the legal ability to regulate such things as indecency and obscenity, as well as commercials in children’s programming.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
Miguel Caban Mendez was arrested March 3 and faces two charges of improper relationship between educator and student, two charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault, according to Carrollton police.
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Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 May 2026
Though her efforts garnered her hate mail, death threats, and court charges of indecency, EXPORT remained undeterred.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 May 2026
That has given the agency the legal ability to regulate such things as indecency and obscenity, as well as commercials in children’s programming.
—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
Miguel Caban Mendez was arrested March 3 and faces two charges of improper relationship between educator and student, two charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault, according to Carrollton police.
—
Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecency
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The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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Musk attempted to color Altman as a uniquely unsuitable supervisor of this technology, but this invariably invited further scrutiny into his own abject unfitness for the role.
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The real issue is Alvero’s unfitness for his office.
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All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there.
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There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.
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No disrespect to Meredith Marks, of course, but this Bravo DJ epidemic has gotten out of control.
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Managers frequently mistake flexibility for a weak work ethic, mental health discussions for fragility, transparency for disrespect, and feedback requests for neediness.
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Right next to her crowd of women's sports advocates was a mosh of pro-transgender activists wearing costumes and shouting obscenities.
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An original call for service indicated that suspects pulled up to a CBS media vehicle and began shouting racial obscenities at a CBS cameraman who is Black, a law enforcement source said.
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No, the Heat would never go there, a flat-out, from-the-start commitment to lottery odds no matter the unseemliness of it all.
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This is a distinct category from the Mile-High Clubbers, whose lewdness is much more inappropriate.
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.
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The bucket quickly went viral for its not-safe-for-work suggestiveness.
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The other funnymen of the time—Milton Berle with his lewd suggestiveness, Jackie Gleason with his baleful roar—did the same shtick over and over.
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“Indecency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecency. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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