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obscene

If something is obscene, it is offensive to morality; it is vulgar; it is depraved. If something is obscene, it is lewd or lustful. If something is obscene, it is beyond all reason. If something is obscene, it is disgusting, repulsive, or abominable. If something is obscene, it is likely to deprave or corrupt somebody.

obscene

designed to incite to indecency or lust the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene — Margaret Mead (= lewd, salacious) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness lewd whisperings of a dirty old man an indecent gesture obscene telephone calls salacious limericks (= abhorrent, repugnant, repulsive) offensive to the mind an abhorrent deed the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee morally repugnant customs repulsive behavior the most repulsive character in recent novels

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Simple sentences

Tom is obscene.
This is obscene.
That's obscene.
These birds seem to have been in there for quite some time. Some have even scratched obscene graffiti into their cages' bottoms.

Movie subtitles

This obscene song earns you a reprimand!
Was obscene language used?
Her babbling, her dreadful obscene babbling.
Terrible, obscene things.
Stop using this courtroom as a platform for your obscene ideas trying to dirty the minds of our young people here.
Don't you think it's a little obscene after a while?
Oh yes. Handsome and obscene.
Skin being used for paintings. many having an obscene nature.
But you also have moral duties, that billboard is clearly obscene.
That obscene billboard continues to spread poison, which is more harmful than radioactive fall-out.
Added to that, just yesterday, Dr. Humbert she wrote a most obscene word with the lipstick, if you please on the health pamphlet.
You're saying it was obscene. Actually she was a thousand times prettier than the one we have.
Shameful and obscene!
When you've served your sentence, you'll be arrested at the gates and charged with having in your possession obscene photographs.
If he hears anything obscene, he'll naturally repel it.
Oh, th-this is obscene!
Obscene!
Obscene, because I consider her welfare and you don't?
Obscene, because I'm willing to marry her and you're not?
Now, tell me again that what I'm asking is obscene!
Positively obscene.
Obscene jokes.
We have. found obscene literature under her mattress.
Your pretty dress would be covered with a blanket, because a dead body is so obscene.
This nude isn't obscene.
This obscene song earns you a reprimand! Where did you learn it?
Her babbling. Her dreadful, obscene babbling.
You won't leave because of this obscene, old fool.
Not physically molested, no. - Was obscene language used? - I don't think so!
Yes, yes, handsome, handsome and obscene.
Skin being used for paintings, many having an obscene nature.
This little obscene lines in you I was terribly amused.
Telling me all this was obscene.
This is disgraceful, obscene He can't marry the daughter of your enemies.
I can't stay here and see you do obscene things!
Guccione is an obscene man. And he'll be the first guy to catch. - That flower.
Ugly thing! Obscene looking.
This plebeian Don Juan observed me pro behind a car and sent me obscene pictures, as those sold nights in Paris.
Say, what was the scene more obscene all his life of crime?

News and current affairs

Now in its eighth year, the almost obscene economic growth in the United States could be used to illustrate the inverse proposition.
I tend to agree with the philosopher Peter Singer that the obscene sums being spent on premier pieces of modern art are disquieting.
Only when such a belief becomes general will despair stop fueling terrorism, and suicide bombing come to be viewed as an obscene calling.
And is killing civilians with chemical agents morally more obscene than shelling, shooting, or starving them to death?
Today's version of that question is: why will richer nations spend obscene amounts of money on climate change, achieving next to nothing in 100 years, when we could do so much good for mankind today for much less money?
Spreads charged on loans to Argentina went from huge to obscene.
This is an obscene perversion of proper religious faith.
He remains unrepentant about the obscene levels of corruption during his tenure as prime minister.
To some, making such priorities seems obscene.
We must be careful not to drive migration further underground or offer additional opportunities to the criminal gangs that prey on the desperation of migrants to make obscene profits.
His comparison of the Iranian threat to the Holocaust may be absurd and obscene, but it is politically effective.
Turner, voicing his concerns about the size of the financial sector and its frequently obscene levels of compensation, said he thought a global tax on financial transactions might help curb both.
But the extent of this inversion is best exemplified in the increasing prevalence of obscene comparisons between Israel's policies toward Palestine and the Nazis' treatment of the Jews.

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