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
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
But in the case of calumny or indecency: 1.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
“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 F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
There were many improprieties, and some indecencies, shocking to English sensibilities.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
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