indecency

• And not only was he thus handicapped by his birth; he had for tutor that arch-scoundrel Dubois—the “grovelling insect” who rarely opened his mouth without uttering a blasphemy or indecency, and who initiated his charge, while still a boy, into every base form of so-called pleasure. —  Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
• The conversation in most societies partakes of this indecency, and the manners of an English female are in danger of becoming contaminated, while she is only endeavouring to suffer without pain the customs of those she has been taught to consider as models of politeness. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
• The reviews as usual accused her of blasphemy and indecency, and so severe was the criticism in the Literary Gazette , then edited by Jerdan, that Colburn was stirred up to found a new literary weekly of his own, and, in conjunction with James Silk Buckingham, started the Athenaeum . —  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
• His mirth is without malice or indecency, and his seriousness without gloom. —  Lives of the English Poets
• The trashy content of the short story now appeared to me as outright indecency, and in the language I detected the accents of a foreign people; the sense of the whole thing was so obviously hostile to Germanism that this could only have been intentional. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna

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