obscenity
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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
"An obscenity which makes unionist buy-in impossible," he said in a statement.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025
In its graceful intertwining of meditation and obscenity, “Afternoons of Solitude” gives an ancient, controversial tradition the chance to shock and awe without hype or favor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025
The unspeakable malevolence of the message is now buried deep inside the word, and out on the surface it presents itself as merely an obscenity.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing obscenity
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