Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being unseemly or immodest.
- noun Something that is indecent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being indecent; want of decency; unbecomingness; especially, extreme vulgarity or obscenity of speech, action, or representation; immorality.
- noun That which is indecent or unbecoming; language, or behavior, or pictorial representation, etc., that violates modesty or decorum; specifically, that which is obscene or grossly vulgar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
- noun That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun lack of
decency ; the property or degree of beingindecent - noun something showing lack of decency; something such as a word that is indecent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being indecent
- noun an indecent or improper act
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Examples
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Since the company renovated its premises in the centre of Jerusalem, installing picture windows that let passers-by see the rehearsals, ultra-orthodox Jews in the locality have waged a campaign against what they call the "indecency" of the women dancers.
Jerusalem dance studio is the new frontline in battle for secular liberty 2011
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How far is the government going in its crackdown on what it calls indecency?
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COOPER: The government's crackdown on what it calls indecency has created a lot of buzz among our viewers.
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"crusade" against content, including "unmooring" the term indecency from its original meaning of "language that described or depicted sexual or excretory activities."
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And the FCC's indecency policy is virtually identical to the definition of indecency the court struck down as unconstitutionally vague in 1997 with respect to Internet content.
Broadcast 'Indecency' on Trial Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. 2012
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Instead of ordering all 169 stations that aired it to pay the larger fine, the FCC ordered 13 Fox-owned and - affiliated stations to pay a total of $91,000 in indecency fines for broadcasting an episode of the long-canceled reality show "Married by America" nearly five years ago.
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Instead of ordering all 169 stations that aired it to pay the larger fine, the FCC ordered 13 Fox-owned and - affiliated stations to pay a total of $91,000 in indecency fines for broadcasting an episode of the long-canceled reality show "Married by America" nearly five years ago.
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Things changed for the network censors last week after the Federal Communications Commission proposed $4 million in indecency fines against television stations -- the bulk of them to a group of CBS affiliates, for airing an episode of '' Without a Trace that featured a teen orgy.
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Arabic word, however low it may be or “shocking” to ears polite; preserving, on the other hand, all possible delicacy where the indecency is not intentional; and, as a friend advises me to state, not exaggerating the vulgarities and the indecencies which, indeed, can hardly be exaggerated.
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The outcry over indecency is a big lie « BuzzMachine
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