indecency

Converse of object

• commit: Under police questioning they claimed to have committed indecencies over the week-end.
• forbid: And He forbids indecency and doing wrong and tyranny.
• have: Now, to my mind, indeed to a majority of minds, it has an indecency compared with possible things.

Preposition: between

• male: Indecency between males - up to 5 years ' imprisonment.

Adjective modifier

• gross: It is an offense for anyone to commit an act of gross indecency with a child under the age of 17.
• public: Help us reverse this act of gross public indecency.
• such: The committee voted 46 to 2 to increase the maximum fine for such indecency from $ 32,500 to a really rather hefty $ 500,000.
• shameless: In practice, shameless indecency was almost never used.

Modifies a noun

• offense: Three other men have been cautioned for separate indecency offenses.
• law: Would Congress have passed the recent Indecency Law had they done the same?
• case: The comic also lost a long-running indecency case in the Seventies, which ruled that his language was legaly unsuitable for broadcast.

Noun used with modifier

• 'gross: Readers will recall that, in such circumstances, the offense used was 'gross indecency ' - an offense which was abolished in 2003.

Preposition: with

• child: It is an offense for anyone to commit an act of gross indecency with a child under the age of 17.