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 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

Kochu Maria was sure that Ettu was an obscenity in English and was waiting for a suitable opportunity to complain about Estha to Mammachi.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

We won’t print those obscenities here, which explains why much of the legacy media has to rely on grandma-isms such as “pottymouth” to write about these events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

You don’t see former Seals fans now screaming obscenities at the Lone Star State, do you?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

No cursing in a house, even if the owner is not present, and—perhaps to keep us in practice—no obscenities even in the office.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich