indecency
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
But two indecency charges relating to school play rehearsals were dropped during the trial because the incidents were alleged to have occurred before a relevant law came into effect in 2006.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
If therefore they apologized for what the sensational moralists blamed, they did it in good faith, not as excusing the indecency, but as surmounting it.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
“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
The indecencies in Chaucer and Shakespeare are to be attributed to the grossness of their times.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
I felt myself defiled by the indecencies I was compelled to witness.
From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary
Vocabulary lists containing indecency
