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noun

Indecency n. (pl. indecencies)

The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.

That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. "They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society."

Synonyms: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See Indecorum.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indecency" Quotes from Famous Books

... an allusion to the great controversy then just raised by Jeremy Collier in his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage, in which all the dramatists of the day were violently attacked for their indecency. Catharine Trotter has the courage to side with Collier, and the tact to do so without quarrelling with her male colleagues. She takes the side ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... policy in America, Franklin had shown himself anxious to maintain the tie between Great Britain and her colonies. This attack upon his character made him one of England's enemies, and, as it proved, one of the most dangerous of them. His conduct is not palliated by the indecency of his opponents. It has been urged in his defence that, as Whately had shown the letters to certain English politicians, it was fair that Boston politicians should also see them, that as agent he was bound to do the best for his province, ...

— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... imposing medicines; the walls of this comfortable room being beauteously adorned by some fifty magazine covers representing the female form in every imaginable state of undress, said magazine-covers being taken chiefly from such amorous periodicals as Le Sourire and that old stand-by of indecency, La Vie Parisienne. Also Monsieur Richard kept a pot of geraniums upon his window-ledge, which haggard and aged-looking symbol of joy he doubtless (in his spare moments) peculiarly enjoyed watering. The Cook ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... This indecency was reported to me. I did not take long in discovering what it was right to do with Adrien. I had him sent to Clagny, where I happened ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... the judgment, or, at any rate, upon modes of judgment not clearly analyzable in consciousness. An openness of manner in the relations of the sexes is very charming, but a little more, and it is boldness, or, if it relates to bodily habits, indecency. A modest behavior is charming, but too much modesty is prudery. Under these circumstances, when the suggestive effect of bodily habits is realized, but the effect of a given bit of behavior cannot be clearly reckoned, and when, at the same time, the effect produced by the action is felt to be very ...

— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas

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