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adjective

Obscene adj.

Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. "Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly."

Foul; fifthy; disgusting. "A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire."

Inauspicious; ill-omened. (R.) (A Latinism) "At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight."

Synonyms: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd.

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Etymology of 'Obscene'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obscene" Quotes from Famous Books

... this peroration, which had been delivered with an accompaniment of violent gesture and a wealth of obscene epithets, quite beyond the power of the mere chronicler to render. Lenoir had a harsh, strident voice, very high pitched, and he spoke with a broad, provincial accent, somewhat difficult to locate, but quite unlike ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... received many anonymous letters—those from the men often obscene, those from the women revealing that curious connection between prostitution and the lowest type of politics which every city tries in vain to hide. I had offers from the men in the city prison to vote properly if released; various communications ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... Indians, mostly Cherokees, crossed the Tennessee not thirty miles from Knoxville. They attacked a small station, within which there were but thirteen souls, who, after some resistance, surrendered on condition that their lives should be spared; but they were butchered with obscene cruelty. Sevier immediately marched toward the assailants, who fled back to the Cherokee towns. Thither Sevier followed them, and went entirely through the Cherokee country to the land of the Creeks, burning the towns and destroying the stores of provisions. ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt

... want to go," he cried, "to the family Ancestral Temple and mourn my old master. Who would have ever imagined that he would leave behind such vile creatures of descendants as you all, day after day indulging in obscene and incestuous practices, 'in scraping of the ashes' and in philandering with brothers-in-law. I know all about your doings; the best thing is to hide one's stump of an arm in one's sleeve!" (wash one's dirty clothes ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... evening sacrifice begun, When evil demons, lurid as the clouds That gather round the dying orb of day, Cluster in hideous troops, obscene and dread, About our altars, casting far and near Terrific shadows, while the sacred fire Sheds a pale lustre o'er their ...

— Sakoontala or The Lost Ring - An Indian Drama • Kalidasa

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