indecency
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Playing some of these songs in public is rude and perhaps illegal indecency.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Arregui is a principled revolutionary dedicated to his cause, while Molina is a gay, flamboyant window dresser who’s been arrested for public indecency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
“We are talking about the bedrock values of who we are as a country and the human indecency that we are seeing,” Jean-Pierre said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
There is a lack of emotional breeding, almost an indecency, in Swinburne's easy familiarity with these great things of the spirit.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
“Even those who think themselves inured to the indecencies of modern fiction will find much of ‘The Tin Drum’ excessively nasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is argued by some critics that these indecencies could not have emanated from a pure, chaste woman; that Marguerite must have experienced the sins she depicted; but such reasoning is not sound.
From Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme
Apart from the Kruger incident, and one or two other indecencies, his observance of international etiquette was relatively correct.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
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