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Obscenity

Obscenity meaning

Something that is obscene. | An act of obscene behaviour. | Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.

Example sentences (20)

Woods has charged with three counts of indecent liberties with a child, one count of disseminate obscenity to a minor and one count of permitting a minor to assist in obscenity.

But public standards rapidly became more liberal though the 1960s, and obscenity was notoriously difficult to define, so by 1971 prosecutions for obscenity had halted.

However, no English dictionary included such words, for fear of possible prosecution under British obscenity laws, until after the conclusion of the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial in 1960.

A senior police officer said that the move has been made in light of the recent spate of “public obscenity” inside metro compartments.

Cutting me off in traffic may justify a honk of the horn and a selected obscenity or two.

I have no idea what contribution, if any, he makes at any level to the wellbeing and sustainability of humanity; it’s just that I think there an obscenity – as in, ‘an offence to public decency’ – in the accumulation of personal wealth to that degree.

It was the first in a litany of recorded crimes: sodomy, poisoning, whippings, obscenity, kidnappings, rape.

Obscenity is a narrow, well-defined category of unprotected speech that excludes any work with serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value, Schuler said.

The laws’ implications, that drag performances should be considered potential sites of obscenity and harm to children, perniciously reinforce now well-established lines of Republican anti-LGBTQ+ fearmongering.

The new anti-drag effort in Alabama is an amendment to the state’s Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act, known as HB 401, which was originally introduced in the 21st century.

A big disappointment was the Senate’s obstruction of House Bill 1257, a measure that would require websites containing “material harmful to minors” (i.e., obscenity) to implement reliable age verification technology to prevent access by children.

Phillip Jacob George, 44, 206 E. Verdine St., Sulphur — obscenity; resisting a police officer with force or violence; battery of a police officer.

Take Trump’s obscenity about abandoning NATO allies: “I couldn’t find a single sitting Republican that openly opposed what he said,” lamented former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a rare Republican who has opposed Trump.

Talking about the cyberattack against K.K. Shailaja, he said the Youth Congress now resorted to obscenity.

The group’s 1989 album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” was the center of a landmark obscenity case.

There's a category of speech that's not protected under current Supreme Court doctrine called obscenity.

The track has zero obscenity in its lyrics, but officials were concerned that it would literally encourage youths to “rock around the clock” and cause delinquency.

Under the protocol, parents can opt their children out of being able to check out books that have certain topics, including profanity/obscenity, racism/discrimination and religious viewpoints.

Witness the latest obscenity: Queens homeowner Adele Andaloro arrested after confronting the creeps squattingin a home she inherited from her parentsand changing the locks in an effort to get them out.

He was fined 15 per cent of his match fee and given a demerit point after being charged by the ICC with a level one offence of "use of an audible obscenity".