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Sentence Examples Each picture is a grid of 16 photographs headed by letters spelling out an obscene word or provocative statement. He was arrested some time ago by a constable in plain clothes for using obscene language and dumped at Central Police Station. It sounds obscene, but it's the short form of Ungespundetes, a beer matured in barrels with open bungholes so the fermentation fizz escapes. I palmed the offending items into a napkin and slipped the obscene bundle into my trouser pocket for disposal later. She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. Until the development of caller ID, it was difficult to track the identity of obscene phone callers. Over the past few years, authorities have cracked down on bars in response to complaints of indecent or obscene behaviour. The new law forbids the distribution to minors of obscene or indecent material through the Internet or on-line services. Thereafter, colonial censors turned their attention more closely to stamping out obscene literature. A paunch could be an obscene thing to many, but never mind that a number of policemen have it in the city. Mr Danby suggests rules which include deleting mail containing obscene, racist or offensive material. At that moment, they noticed I was watching them and greeted me with a tirade of foul language and obscene gestures. It is the voyeur in the audience who is the reason for offensive and obscene scenes in films. They had already beaten up and name-called other boys from his school, and subjected girls to obscene sexual innuendo. In the resulting hoo-ha, Harris was prosecuted and sent to trial for publishing supposedly obscene verse. It is considered rude, even obscene in Japan, Greece, Spain and some South American states. Every day, he says, children would hurl obscene and offensive abuse at teachers. If someone leaves a comment, it appears as written unless the comment is obscene or vulgar. Football chants are cruel, obscene, offensive, sometimes downright sick and often very funny. This poem uses obscene words to describe obscene acts and obscene attitudes. Show More Sentences There are groups and goals, and sometimes those two combine to produce the most obscene outrages. They said the film was obscene and vulgar and showed women in a poor light. It also facilitates adults with a sexual interest in children to view obscene material and trade it. Seriously, can you think of any legitimate reason for carrying an obscene amount of money in a duffel bag? You many not choose a name that is obscene, offensive, unreasonably long or contrary to public interest. Penny works as a supermarket cashier and spends most of her home life trying to deflect obscene verbal abuse from her son, Rory, a couch potato. A local man has been arrested after making obscene phone calls to a TV weathergirl. In light of its vast market power, Wal-Mart has infuriated the media with its long-standing refusal to stock obscene CDs and racy magazines. Network Rail has accepted responsibility for the property but said that unless the graffiti was racist or obscene it was not a priority. For a man who has suffered genuine hardship, our reaction over the past week must seem almost obscene. Sure, the lyrics are angry, bitter, raving, mad, obscene, and a 1000 other adjectives, but they don't change my opinion. Of course, in some ways this notion is distasteful, obscene and disgusting. Few people today would describe the First World War as anything other than an obscene slaughter. That was when I began to notice the obscene disproportion of taxpayers' money spent on London. It is obscene that the leaders of the rich world can wine and dine in the splendour of a luxury liner while offering only crumbs in debt relief. We believe it is obscene that refuges should be turned into killing fields. I thought the movie would be ok, but nothing could prepare me for the cleverness, the obscene wittiness, and the overall awesomeness. There are, according to the American Defense Secretary himself, worse, much worse obscene cruelties, to be revealed. She is also charged with using obscene language, assaulting PC Ramcharan, occasioning a wound and behaving in a disorderly manner. She cried and made obscene gestures as she was led from court to start three years and nine months behind bars. Show More Sentences This poverty coexists with obscene wealth at the other end of the social scale. The dome is not the only monstrous carbuncle currently swallowing obscene amounts of public money. Every track is just a rant delivered over a monotonous beat and the limited vocabulary would be laughable were it not so obscene. It was not merely that Lawrence's choice of subject and treatment was considered obscene. It gives rise to verbal provocations such as yelling and cursing, excessive honking of the horn, rude or obscene gestures and threats. And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not. Any local band can apply to play a set on stage, but organisers are warning acts that obscene lyrics and lewd behaviour are out of the question. A broad rhetorical commitment to this ideal coexisted with stringent restrictions on speech deemed radical or obscene. His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar. He had been driving around slowly, shouting abuse and making obscene gestures at police officers. That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions. The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent. But the attempt to define and punish a category of speech as obscene is an atavistic vestige from a distant era. It becomes the vehicle for corporate branding of the most vulgar sort and it encourages waste on an obscene scale. The obscene inequalities of wealth dividing rich and poor nations must be reduced. As each news bulletin heralds an upwards revision of long past obscene totals, alternative conclusions are easy to avoid. Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America. So, we were playing obscene Scrabble with double points for swear words and cocktail names. The principal explanation lies in the obscene moral inversion of victim culture. All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances. Show More Sentences My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane. These are obscene, indeed profane, images, though not nearly as obscene as the human actions they document. Your obscene actions only show who you are, that you are a hateful person and that you deserve no one and no friends. Just as the musicians' lyrics are violent, obscene and self-pitying, so is the generation that supports their opulent lifestyle. When staff became concerned by his erratic behaviour and obscene language they called police. Corruption and cronyism have increased in the spheres of politics and business in an almost obscene fashion. It's also worth noting that the four-letter words Toto includes are not obscene. He has an obscene amount of muscles and an unfortunate shaggy mullet hairstyle. Well, foul speech may be offensive, but who can say with certainty what is obscene? They will face charges of obscene language, throwing missiles and resisting arrest. How dare you molest this young lady with your obscene and suggestive insinuations? But these twerps are just obscene, and they have no idea how tiresome it appears, and how boringly ordinary they all look. You didn't spend an obscene amount on the catering just to have it grow cold as one of your guests blathers on. He announces his arrival with a long, low, almost obscene whistle that sounds as though someone had just uncaged a large, evil bird. Largely, this can be explained by the embarrassment many of them feel about their obscene and unearned mega-fortunes. Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich. Indeed, one of the two main words used in English legislation, i.e., obscene, has two, mutually contradictory, legal definitions. The sacred and the profane, the high-minded and the obscene, the brutal and the clinically hilarious are interwoven with rare theatrical craft. The conspicuous display of obscene wealth is not a creation of Forbes or the Tatler, but goes back to the Pyramids and beyond. Surrounded by all this civility and fine design, this spectacle is growing untenably intimate, obscene, dangerous. Show More Sentences All this at a time when the whole of Britain is in an uproar over obscene council tax rises and in a turmoil over pensions crises! Hard-core material could be banned as obscene and soft-core magazines could be limited to adults in order to avoid harm to minors. Three spammers were indicted in Pheonix last week for sending obscene spam in violation of US anti-spam regulations. Some women might like their men to talk dirty but this was obscene filth. The bigness, as evident in the Penguin Random House merger, has reached obscene proportions. He'd found some young man in clothes that were too big for him, sneering and making obscene gestures while some very beautiful but very whorish young women danced around him. The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups. The juggernaut franchise that has made obscene amounts of money may have finally reached the point of diminishing returns. Of course, it's not exactly hard to find billionaires who think of themselves as altruists regardless of the obscene amounts of wealth they accumulate. Acceptable clothing, however, does not include ornately woven sandals, leopard patterns of any sort, and obscene souvenir T-shirts from vacations past. In June, the executive offices of the Metropolitan Opera were broken into and graffitied with obscene messages. The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene. The idea that we should bow and scrape to such a family is obscene. Anything involving that obscene level of cash will definitely have juicy stories behind it. They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories. More than half of all the antibiotics used in this country are used in the farms and in the poultry sheds and all the rest of it, now that's obscene for a start. Why bother squashing minor-league competitors in the Majority World when sales there are such a small slice of the pie and the industry earns obscene profits anyway? People who are constantly suppressing the urge to make the most obscene, offensive jokes that spring to mind. A monumental political bombshell, his obscene downfall was a cinematic gimme, sure to set screenwriter hearts aflutter. So which selfie is more obscene, Anthony Weiner and his wee-wee or Aaron Hernandez and his pistol? Show More Sentences Anybody who has seen a youngster dead from bullet wounds has witnessed what is profoundly obscene. These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates. It was my first encounter with a particular kind of reality, which my religion, my upbringing, and the callowly romantic cast of my mind had declared obscene. If only she could express it without employing obscene moral parallels. The court said obscene material should be judged by local standards. The content should more realistically be described as obscene language. He remembered the girls going into the pub and conceded that one of the group had made a remark about them which was very offensive and highly obscene. All 520 copies were confiscated under a charge of obscene literature. Put a face to the obscene greed that's strangling our beloved country! The amount of alcohol that was lined up for the housemates was obscene. More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition. This was banned from radio play at the time because the radio stations that couldn't speak Ambolley's language, Fanti, assumed that the song was obscene! And people look as if the poor old dear has said something obscene. Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public. This is gratuitous violence, sick, bone-crunching, vicious and obscene. I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones. The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene. A somewhat lengthy disquisition on epideictic rhetoric is notably broken up by a discussion of the figural strategies of auxesis and epistrophe in the cartoon's obscene song. The church filed an in rem petition with the court, requesting that the book be declared obscene. The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing. Show More Sentences She would probably jump at the chance to show everyone how to save an obscene amount of money with an obscene amount of coupons. The Greeks call this member clitoris, from which the obscene word clitorize is derived. Saying that obscenity is indecent and then saying something is indecent if it's obscene is a circular definition. The obscene calls of Sieg Heil uttered by the welcoming Austrian throngs still ring in my ears. Urine, feces, blood, and other bodily effluvia are both routinely referenced in obscene speech as well being reliable disgust elicitors. The reminder of who we were made the canned laughter obscene. Disgusted, mother returned to the kitchen, her thoughts private. In 1973, the Supreme Court produced the three-prong Miller test as a means of determining whether something was obscene. They said he behaved very calmy at all times, simply looking at them but making no obscene gestures or remarks. Of course it is very difficult to pinpoint why someone would resort to such obscene violence. He asks how pagan gods who exhibit the same destructive passions and obscene desires as wicked humans can be worthy of worship. What is obscene today may not be so tomorrow or what is obscene at one place may not be obscene at another place. Others may seem them as pompous windbags with over-inflated egos and obscene salaries to match. Divine and mythological figures were also given secular, humorous, and even obscene depictions. Rigorous filtering targets political, human rights, religious material and content deemed obscene. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than your father's ancient name. Although the first US copyright law specifically did not cover obscene materials, the provision was removed subsequently. The US has been showing off all the toys it will use to blow the Iraqis into oblivion, themost obscene of which has to be the Massive Ordnance Air Burst,or MOAB,bomb. However, in a world that is becoming more insatiably neophiliac, crunching through consumer durables with obscene rapidity, where does that leave thoughtful slowness? Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects. Priscillian was questioned and forced to make the confession that he studied obscene doctrines, held nocturnal meetings with shameful women, and prayed while naked. Show More Sentences The tract was far more political and religious than sexual, but Cockburn found it obscene because it would suggest to young persons impure and libidinous thoughts. We must distinguish between obscene and nonobscene pornography. Some courts have held that copyright protection effectively applies to works, whether they are obscene or not, but not all courts have ruled the same way. But as it is, Koch wants this antirape comedy to be trendy, tough, and hilarious too, and considering the material, that not only won't wash, it's just a tad obscene. Abstract words such as glory, honour, courage, or hallow were obscene. Special K was clearly unhappy with having to disclose her obscene salary and her secret organisation which has done everything possible to hide top manager's pay. The kleptomaniacs partying as if the crash never happened is obscene when the clear blue water between the have-nots and have-yachts is creating two countries. Addison, from Rayleigh in Essex, was fined PS6,000 in May after he admitted 11 counts of publishing an obscene article at Westminster Magistrates' Court the previous month. Obscene words were scratched into the bodywork of the vehicles and other damage was caused over the bank holiday weekend. Obscene video tapes and counterfeit CD-ROMs are sometimes ordered crushed by steamrollers, and I believe mobile phones should suffer the same fate. But, in Chapters 4 and 5 of Virtually Obscene, White shows that the proponents of these pro-regulation arguments are too confident in the unsinkability of their position. Examples from Classical Literature The principal constituent element in this fescennine poetry was obscene mockery. Madison got a bottle and he and I got sloppily drunk, leaning on each other, singing innocently obscene songs of our youth. The assumption in this obiter dictum seemed to be that Rabelais is an obscene writer. Out of this has come the notion of what is obscene, as the extreme of indecency and impropriety. Is the Priapus of the priests less obscene than the Priapus of the players? But just as it takes two to make a quarrel, so the obscene mockery of the fescennine verses required two principals. It was covered in obscene doodles of mickey mouse with a huge erection, Minnie dangling from a noose. Their humour was obscene and he was never at a loss for the lewd remark. Such obscene and foul language are often found in clothes and footwear and also toys with recorded-built in offensive words. We let obscene writers write about the obscenities of this ordinary man. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. They were alone in the hotel but for a fat Frenchwoman of middle age, a Rabelaisian figure with a broad, obscene laugh. It is utterly obscene to think of spending pounds 50bn regenerating London Dockland yet again. These obscene songs promoted sensualism and profligacy, and corrupted the Florentine youth. Some, covered with obscene totemic figures and designs, were carved from solid tree trunks forty or fifty feet in length. Not surprisingly, a year after it started, the Postmaster General dubbed ONE magazine obscene and banned its distribution. Goodworthy, a respectable householder with excellent principles, the capital of France was a paradise of the joyously obscene. They suggested in obscene terms that their money be refunded. And a third showed the horn of an ox, with an obscene inscription. He growled an obscene oath as he heaved the great oar forward. Show More Sentences Hargus repeated the prisoner's request with obscene embellishment. Between them they dragged into the light the obscene burden. But Tonet made an obscene gesture, and started to put the jacket on. On Friday April 24 I emailed the parks department at Kirklees council about some obscene and misogynistic graffiti that had been written on the slide in my local park. What irks me the most is that decent, hard-working folks are forced to finance art forms that go far beyond what most civilized people would call obscene. From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of obscene? Words that rhyme with obscene What is the adverb for obscene? What is the adjective for obscene? What is the noun for obscene? Translations for obscene Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words obs O'Brien obpyriform obovoid obovate Obon obscenely obscenities obscenity obscura obscurant obscurantism 7-letter Words Starting With o ob obs obsc obsce obscen