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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Offensive to good taste; unseemly.
  2. adj. Offensive to public moral values; immodest. See Synonyms at improper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not decent. Unbecoming; unseemly; violating propriety in language, behavior, etc.
  2. Grossly vulgar; offensive to modesty; obscene; lewd.
  3. Synonyms Indelicate, indecorous, immodest, gross, shameful, impure, filthy, obscene, nasty.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. offensive to good taste
  2. adj. not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
  2. adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
  3. adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

Examples

  • “He wants only traditional Persian or classical Western music on the government airways, not what he calls indecent, obscene Western music.”

    CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006

  • “Attacks on children, for instance, were often classified as indecent assault, not rape - even though the young are often targeted because of the mistaken belief that sex with a child can rid the body of the HIV virus.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “I know not any comment that can be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce many similar ones; and some, so very sentimental, that I have heard rational men use the word indecent, when they mentioned them with disgust.”

    A vindication of the rights of woman

  • “I know not any comment that can be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce many similar ones; and some, so very sentimental, that I have heard rational men use the word indecent, when they mentioned them with disgust. 72”

    Chap. V

  • “However, I am sure that there are chants at the Emirates almost every match which could be described as "indecent" - it perhaps depends on your expectations of the atmosphere, your sense of humour and the thickness of your skin.”

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts

  • “Programming replete with one-word indecent expletives will tend to produce children" who use them, Justice Scalia wrote.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Court Backs Fines for On-Air Expletives

  • “Lubna al Hussain could face up to a month in jail because of what the morality police called indecent clothing.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2009

  • “Facecat: flashing a breast indecently in public is called indecent exposure.”

    Under The Blanket

  • “Flashing a bare breast in public is called indecent exposure and if anyone other woman did it she'd be arrested.”

    Under The Blanket

  • “In Massachusetts those who void where prohibited may be charged with “open and gross lewdness” aka indecent exposure.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Prisoner Prosecuted for Masturbation:

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