Explore Indecency through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like impropriety or decency. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Indecency in a sentence
Indecency meaning
- Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent.
- Something showing lack of decency; something (such as a word) that is indecent.
Synonyms of Indecency
Using Indecency
- The main meaning on this page is: Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent. | Something showing lack of decency; something (such as a word) that is indecent.
- Useful related words include: impropriety, improperness, decency, misbehavior.
- In the example corpus, indecency often appears in combinations such as: gross indecency, indecency with, public indecency.
Context around Indecency
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Indecency
- In this selection, "indecency" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, public, gross, anti, charges, nor and based stand out and add context to how "indecency" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abetting public indecency and act of indecency on a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "indecency" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with indecency
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The subject was cited for public indecency. (7 words)
One of the better-known and more easily discoverable secrets in is the consequences of Link's public indecency. (19 words)
We have had infamy and ignominy, Dr. President; let us now have neither indecency nor insipidity with this CoI. (19 words)
So avid were Jewish audiences to see Wilde’s at a time when the author’s plays were still banned from London stages after his imprisonment for “gross indecency” that was translated into Yiddish and performed onstage in New York by 1908. (42 words)
Then in 2018, after a trial at Reading Crown Court, he was jailed for a further six years for one count of gross indecency with/towards a child and eight counts of indecent assault of a boy. (37 words)
The woman has also denied two counts each of grooming and committing an act of indecency on a child, and single counts of making pornographic material available, and supplying cannabis, to a young person. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
He has been charged with five criminal offences including sexual intercourse without consent, three counts of assault with indecency, and common assault which is an alternative charge to one of the indecency charges.
Anti-indecency and anti-obscenity provisions The most controversial portions of the Act were those relating to indecency on the Internet.
An "evil" 65-year-old man has been jailed after he was found guilty of a string of historic sexual offences including rape, indecent assault, and indecency with a child.
But Export also had some haters, who sent her poisonous mail, threats and dragged her to court for alleged indecency.
DeSantis has been mocked for imitating Trump’s gestures (the accordion hands and the O-shaped thumb/index finger sign) but he’s been just as assiduous in adopting Trump’s moral indecency.
One of the better-known and more easily discoverable secrets in is the consequences of Link's public indecency.
So avid were Jewish audiences to see Wilde’s at a time when the author’s plays were still banned from London stages after his imprisonment for “gross indecency” that was translated into Yiddish and performed onstage in New York by 1908.
The defendants had pleaded not guilty, denying any intent of indecency even though they admitted to pushing her onto a bed, NHK television reported.
The manager of a sex club in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting public indecency.
The subject was cited for public indecency.
We have had infamy and ignominy, Dr. President; let us now have neither indecency nor insipidity with this CoI.
Andrew Jessiman had denied a charge of voyeurism, along with one of public indecency, at Inverness Sheriff Court, but a jury found him guilty of both.
Further charges of indecency with a child were filed against the disgraced ex-teaching assistant by the Taylor County District Attorney’s Office in June.
In St. Vincent and the Grenadines, buggery, including buggery among consenting adults, is considered an act of gross indecency.
On August 3 2021, Tsvetanov committed an act of public indecency by exposing himself and performing a sex act.
The 54-year-old was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court earlier this month of gross indecency with a child and indecent assault on a child.
Then in 2018, after a trial at Reading Crown Court, he was jailed for a further six years for one count of gross indecency with/towards a child and eight counts of indecent assault of a boy.
The woman has also denied two counts each of grooming and committing an act of indecency on a child, and single counts of making pornographic material available, and supplying cannabis, to a young person.
Porter has been charged with five counts of indecent assault and five counts of gross indecency based on the Criminal Code at the time.
The eight men were sentenced to two years for “indecency” and “inciting debauchery” under articles 264 and 306 of the penal code.
Common combinations with indecency
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gross indecency 15×
- indecency with 13×
- public indecency 9×
- indecency and 6×
- of indecency 6×
- alleged indecency 3×
- the indecency 2×
- indecency on 2×
- and indecency 2×