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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-dee-suh n-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈdi sən si |
Definition of indecency
Origin :- 1580s, from Latin indecentia "unseemliness, impropriety," noun of quality from indecentem (see indecent).
- noun obscenity, vulgarity
- It is not indecency; it is simply an animal absence of modesty.
- Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey
- Somehow I had a sense that she was conscious of the indecency of this.
- Extract from : « The Patagonia » by Henry James
- No matter where it may be drawn, decency is close to it on one side and indecency on the other.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Out of this has come the notion of what is obscene, as the extreme of indecency and impropriety.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Indeed the Chinese religions are said to be hostile to indecency.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- This last degenerated into obscenity, indecency, and disorder.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- But they do not say anything about the immorality and the indelicacy and the indecency of doing them.
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- But when it did become my property, why had you the indecency to stay?
- Extract from : « Blue-Bird Weather » by Robert W. Chambers
- What a butchery, what an indecency, what an endless swishing of the rod!
- Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Indecency, however, it is, rather than strict lasciviousness.
- Extract from : « Classic French Course in English » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
Synonyms for indecency
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