obscenity
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The commission sets rules for disclosing sponsors, emergency broadcasts, and content regarding obscenity and decency.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
That this is a grotesque obscenity and cannot be allowed to continue?
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
Today’s publishers aren’t much constrained by obscenity laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Maybe it’s just a vibe, or as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once wrote about obscenity: “I know it when I see it.”
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
The cake was the single obscenity in an atmosphere of rigorous decorum.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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That so many people in Minneapolis have endangered themselves by waving phones in the faces of armed federal officers and shouting obscenities as if they were psychotic is one of many unhappy consequences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 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
First, not all homeless people have serious mental illness — not even most do, even people who smell horrible or scream obscenities to no one in particular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
But she told MPs she would not "justify a news organisation whose anchor went out to shout obscenities at Tories" - a reference to claims about Jon Snow.
From BBC ● May 19, 2022
“How dare you scream obscenities at me. Someone grab that boy,” Ignatius said wildly as George disappeared into the crowds of pedestrians farther down the street.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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