Obscene Definition

ŏb-sēn, əb-
adjective
obscener, obscenest
Offensive to one's feelings, or to prevailing notions, of modesty or decency; lewd.
Webster's New World
Designating or of books, films, etc. which when judged by contemporary community standards, are found to appeal to a prurient interest in sex, be patently offensive, and have no serious artistic, scientific, or social value.
Webster's New World
Disgusting; repulsive.
Webster's New World
So extreme in amount as to be objectionable or outrageous.
American Heritage
Exceptionally repugnant to the contemporary standards of decency and morality within the community; grossly obnoxious to the notions of acceptable behavior.
Webster's New World Law
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Other Word Forms of Obscene

Adjective

Base Form:
obscene
Comparative:
obscener
Superlative:
obscenest

Origin of Obscene

  • Ultimately from the Latin obscēnus, obscaenus, perhaps via Middle French; compare the Modern French obscène.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin obscēnus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Obscene Sentence Examples

  • They leered, and one made an obscene gesture.

  • Here he began to write plays and obscene novels.

  • The discussion of this measure occupied most of the session of 1895; the bill was amended by the Centre so as to make it even more strongly a measure for the defence of religion; and clauses were introduced to defend public morality, by forbidding the public exhibition of pictures or statues, or the sale of writings, which, without being actually obscene, might rudely offend the feeling of modesty.

  • The Genevan town councils were quite ready to re-enact all the old police regulations common in that age in regard to excessive display, dancing, obscene songs, &c. It was arranged too that town government should listen to the " Consistory," made up of the " Elders," but the Small Council was to choose the members of the Consistory, two of whom should belong to the Small Council, four to the Council of Sixty, and six to the Council of Two Hundred.

  • The Commons had ordered to be printed, among other papers, a report of the inspectors of prisons on Newgate, which stated that an obscene book, published by Stockdale, was given to the prisoners to read.

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