obscene

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But I have never heard any Fianna Fail TD saying they are worried about the effects of these images on the female population or Mary O'Rourke calling them obscene, which is what they are.

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  1. adjective Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty.
  2. adjective Inciting lustful feelings; lewd.
  3. adjective Repulsive; disgusting: "The way he writes about the disease that killed her is simply obscene” (Michael Korda).

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  • He didn't even bother to stop, but called the obscene order over his shoulder. —  Garwood, Julie - The Wedding
  • I'm wearing a t-shirt with a keyhole detail that's more than a bit obscene which is why I pinned on the bow. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • Please let us know if this reader's comment breaks the editor's rules and is obscene, abusive, threatening, unlawful, harassing, defamatory, profane or racially offensive by selecting the appropriate option to describe the problem. close —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • So the question becomes whether or not the depictions at issue are obscene, a word which has a long history of cases behind it. —  Anime Nano!
  • In a silent protest against the brutality with which their fellow student has been treated for exhibiting works that BJP and VHP activists claim are offensive and obscene, the students put up pictures of the Gudimallam Shiva, perhaps the earliest known Shiva image, which combines the lingam with an anthropomorphic form; a Kushan mukha-linga or masked lingam; —  Kafila
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin obscēnus.

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  1. = French obscène = Spanish Portuguese obsceno = Italian osceno, from Latin obscenus, obscænus, obscænus, of adverse omen, ill-omened, hence repulsive, offensive, especially offensive to modesty, obscene; origin obscure.
 

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