obscenity

Converse of object

• yell: The butcher explodes and punches her belly several times yelling obscenities like " Your baby is hamburger meat now " .
• shout: He kept shouting obscenities around the court, claiming to be in love with her!
• scream: John, usually very cool and tough, became pale, trembled and screamed terrible obscenities at me.
• contain: Please be aware that our spam filter deletes material that contains obscenities.
• use: They were screaming at him, using obscenities, being very aggressive.
• mutter: The big man was still alive, curled into a tight ball. Get up. J.J. muttered an obscenity.

Preposition: at

child: There are parents who will shout obscenities at children in the opposing team.

Adjective modifier

• general: However, in the milieu of general obscenity it passes as harmless parlance.
• such: Your paper will only improve more, without such obscenities obscuring the clarity of Mr Wood's appearance.
• so-called: The objection to Husain is not the so-called obscenity of his paintings.
• ultimate: War is the ultimate in criminality, the ultimate obscenity, the ultimate crime against humanity.
• moral: That people are compelled to divert resources in this way is surely a moral obscenity.
• only: The only obscenity is something called British Justice An important avenue of porn distribution in the UK is via mail order.

Preposition: on

wall: The window was smashed and there were obscenities on the walls.

Modifies a noun

• law: The tourist could now face up to three months in jail under India's obscenity laws.
• charge: The latter publication, which Barker co-edited, delivered him trembling to the dock of the Old Bailey on an obscenity charge in 1973.
• case: Maxwell was a prosecution witness in the obscenity case brought against the American novel Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1966.
• prosecution: The satisfyingly late Mary Whitehouse failed in her attempt to bring an obscenity prosecution against the play's original director, Michael Bogdanov.

Preposition: of

• war: This comparison is a powerful illustration of the obscenity of war.
• kind: Excessive use of obscenities of any kind is strongly discouraged.