indecency
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It is Douglas who is eventually prosecuted for indecency, goes to prison and dies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Playing some of these songs in public is rude and perhaps illegal indecency.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
The PTC’s power came, in large part, from its ability to flood the FCC with indecency complaints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
He said it was public indecency punishable by Namibian law.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024
That comes like an exposure, an indecency, a slap in the face.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
“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
The blue sash winced primly at the word biological, and appealed to her escort to protect her somehow from the indecencies of life.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
Nevertheless, it is with no good-will I dwell on the matter; in writing, as in life, there are decencies and indecencies; things to be told and others to be implied.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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