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  • adjective superlative form of obscene: most obscene.

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Examples

  • Salome dances, and even the wildest, obscenest type of the "_can-can_" of the French, in its most promiscuous lascivious forms, were common fare on the varied English stages.

    The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

  • You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the world -- the Tribune -- and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses -- Titian's Venus.

    A Tramp Abroad 1879

  • You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the world -- the Tribune -- and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses -- Titian's Venus.

    A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872

  • You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the world .... and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses -- Titian's Venus.

    1601 Mark Twain 1872

  • He had the "Curculio" played before his wife, and if Catharine indeed could listen to the licentious and shameless jests of the popular Roman poet only with bashful blushes, Henry was so much the more delighted by it, and accompanied the obscenest allusions and the most indecent jests with his uproarious laughter and loud shouts of applause.

    Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843

  • But what _is_ an attack upon Joan, being briefly the foulest and obscenest attempt ever made to stifle the grandeur of a great human struggle, viz., the French burlesque poem of _La

    Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

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