Modifies a noun

• gesture: Wasn't sure whether other rider was waving or making an obscene gesture.

• graffito: Graffiti We will remove racist or obscene graffiti by the end of the next working day.

• caller: In this case, if the obscene caller forwarded calls to your phone, the return would end up there.

• inequality: Instead, the expansion of trade has fuelled the widening of obscene inequalities.

• amount: With the obscene amounts of money you must be making now surely you can have both?

• joke: An actor playing a stand-up comedian suffering from insecurity problems tells a series of increasingly obscene jokes.

Modifying Another Word

• downright: Yes, it's clunky, silly and often downright obscene.

• almost: Rover tried to generate almost obscene levels of profit from the City.

• truly: And this morning it is giving itself a massive pat on the back with a truly obscene bit of self-promotion.

• sometimes: Such mail usually advertises get-rich-quick schemes, ' health ' products, or websites, sometimes obscene.

• too: Charlie, Peanuts and a several others which are far too obscene for publication.

• not: Indeed, a leading QC gave his opinion that the film was not obscene.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seemed obscene a private entity could profit off the imprisonment of fellow citizens.

• consider: Of course this then means that Customs don't receive much feedback on what is considered obscene.

• find: Given the critical reputation that the film enjoyed, he therefore concluded that it was highly unlikely to be found obscene by a jury.

• deem: Deemed obscene by the Vatican and banned by the BBC, it became the first foreign-language song to reach number one.

• contain: Do not visit sites or download files containing obscene, pornographic, discriminatory or otherwise offensive material.

• become: Religion has become obscene, or perhaps we should say medical.