obscenity

That this is a grotesque obscenity and cannot be allowed to continue?

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

The film, among the first to receive an X rating, was the subject of 23 prosecutions for obscenity, which didn’t get in the way of it becoming a breakout hit in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 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

Anderson founded “The Little Review” in Chicago in 1913 and nurtured it into a publication that moved to New York and Paris — and played a part in the infamous “Ulysses” obscenity trial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

Please confine yourself to discussing issues and such; thereby you will at least avoid obscenity and offense.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Saeed Habiba, the head of Iran’s Student Affairs Organization, said universities won’t tolerate what he called obscenities and illegal acts and that some students have been summoned and charged with unspecified offenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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

Attempts have been made to cover it over, but some of the obscenities can still be read.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood