indecency
indecency
Definition
in·de·cency (in dē′sən sē)
noun
- the state or quality of being indecent; lack of modesty, taste, or propriety
- pl. -·cies an indecent act, statement, etc.
Etymology: L indecentia
indecency
Synonyms
indecency
n.
The quality of being indecent
coarseness, grossness, bawdiness, vulgarity; see lewdness.An instance of indecency
impurity, immodesty, offense, incivility, impropriety, indecorum, ribaldry, indelicacy, obscenity, vulgarity, raciness, four-letter word, lewdness, drunkenness, quadriliteral, pornography, smut, foulness.
indecency
Law Definition
n
Of speech, the state of being crude and offensive,
typically in a sexual manner.
indecency
Usage Examples
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.
indecency Quotes
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence.
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