obscenity

"We're running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers," Greenpeace political campaigner Rudy Schulkind said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Supreme Court recognized the constitutional obscenity of that arrangement as early as Strauder v.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026

The film, among the first to receive an X rating, was the subject of 23 prosecutions for obscenity, which didn’t get in the way of it becoming a breakout hit in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Anderson founded “The Little Review” in Chicago in 1913 and nurtured it into a publication that moved to New York and Paris — and played a part in the infamous “Ulysses” obscenity trial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Saeed Habiba, the head of Iran’s Student Affairs Organization, said universities won’t tolerate what he called obscenities and illegal acts and that some students have been summoned and charged with unspecified offenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Beyond the melting shadows of the arena, gladiatrices would have heard thousands of faceless spectators howl obscenities, felt the heat of their breath, and smelled the mass of bodies raging in the night.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024

Attempts have been made to cover it over, but some of the obscenities can still be read.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

For the sake of civility, the Writers Guild contract should include a requirement that all writers must learn how to write scripts without using obscenities at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood