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Benson said she experienced threats first-hand when people "shouting obscenities and graphic threats into bullhorns in the dark of night" arrived outside her home in December 2020 after election results were certified in Michigan.

From Axios

We also see that reflected in the rolling obscenity of global vaccine distribution, where vaccines have been allocated in a non-coordinated fashion, oblivious to human need and often driven by foreign policy imperatives.

From Time

The fight over the obscenity of trying to remove Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Beloved” from a school library.

The attacks come on the heels of an increase in incidents in which passengers have shouted obscenities, pushed and shoved flight attendants, harassed other passengers or even attempted to open the cockpit door.

Other video showed a Border Patrol agent on a horse shouting an obscenity as he tried to clear a child away.

Some might say there is also an obscenity to it, given the amount of poverty in the world.

Among these are obscenity, defamation, fighting words, express incitement to unlawful conduct, and threats.

One trucker did shout an obscenity, and a musclebound mechanic told them to go and do something useful like study.

An Alabama obscenity law passed in 1998 made the sale of most sex toys illegal in the state.

Coined “obscenity regulations,” on face value they appear to ban material that “depicts or describes sexual misconduct.”

They rebelled at the immorality of his conduct and the obscenity of his writings; and he resolved that they should accept both.

The charge was "obscenity," and they had been arrested at the instance of Anthony Comstock.

Another feature in common is the rank realism and open obscenity which marked the humours of both species.

That means losing ground at an increasing rate to the obscenity crawling over our planet.

Aaron Stoltzfoos dropped the lantern to his side, amazed that the dignified old man could be guilty of such an obscenity.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to obscenity, such as: four-letter word, indecency, pornography, profanity, smut, and vulgarity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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