obscenity
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Police complaints were filed alleging obscenity and a case was registered against the participants, including Raina.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
That this is a grotesque obscenity and cannot be allowed to continue?
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 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
Kenyon’s 1958 history of the Stuart dynasty, which began with James and lasted 111 years, cited James’s “vulgarity, obscenity and uproarious pedantry.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
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