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• n  the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
• n  an offensive or indecent word or phrase
• n  an obscene act

• When fired for obscenity I was in the middle of a five-part series on knitting.
• Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
• Yes, it would probably still be an obscenity.

• lewdness
• bawdiness
• salaciousness
• salacity
• smut
• vulgarism
• filth
• dirty word

News & Articles

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• Ulster deputies nab Boiceville man, one of their most wanted, on charge of sending lewd picture of himself to 15-year ...
  BOICEVILLE, N.Y. -- A Boiceville man who was one of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office top 10 Most Wanted for obscenity-related charges has been arrested, the sheriff’s office said Friday.
  June 8, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman

Quotes

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• George Carlin in TIME
  The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition,Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an...
• Soli Sorabjee in Guardian Unlimited
  The order is ridiculous. Even if this hugging and kissing was a bit vulgar, it does not amount to obscenity,India's former attorney general Soli Sorabjee told The Associated Press.
• Benjamin Chavis in New York Press
  Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, co-chairmen of the advocacy group Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said in a statement, "These three words should be considered with the same objections to obscenity as extreme curse words."