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English to English adjective
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Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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designed to incite to indecency or lust | | Example: the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene
source: wordnet30
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offensive to the mind | | Example: an abhorrent deed
the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
morally repugnant customs
repulsive behavior
the most repulsive character in recent novels
source: wordnet30
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suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | | Example: lewd whisperings of a dirty old man
an indecent gesture
obscene telephone calls
salacious limericks
source: wordnet30
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