indecency
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Playing some of these songs in public is rude and perhaps illegal indecency.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
But the Parents Television Council Inc. — whose members lodged thousands of indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission — has folded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
To quote “Now & Then” column founder Paul Dorpat, “In the moment it might take an exhausted barrister to mouth a monosyllabic indecency, the old embarrassment was leveled.”
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 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
It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He found the taunts, jeers and indecencies to be more than he could bear.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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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