Thesaurus: indecency
The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
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Definitions
- n. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
- n. That which is word/indecent">indecent; an word/indecent">indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
- n. the quality of being indecent
- n. an indecent or improper act
- 1. The word/quality">quality or word/state">state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. 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. Beattie. Syn. -- Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See Indecorum.
- n:100 n. the quality of being indecent n. an indecent or improper act