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indecency

[in-dee-suhn-see] / ɪnˈdi sən si /


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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

Two counts of gross indecency were withdrawn from the jury on a point of law during the course of the trial.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

Arregui is a principled revolutionary dedicated to his cause, while Molina is a gay, flamboyant window dresser who’s been arrested for public indecency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

I turn not from the harsh rebuke of this young lady, albeit I am not insensible to its injustice,—nor, indeed, blind to its indecency.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope

“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

S: Those who keep aloof from the great sins and the indecencies but the passing idea; surely your Lord is liberal in forgiving.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But to detail all the absurdities and indecencies of these revered artists, whether limners, or carvers in wood, were endless.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various


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