Meaning of indecent liberty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any behavior beyond the limits of propriety.
2. Sexual behavior beyond social or legal limits.

Examples

“c. 1700, Samuel Garth, preface to The Dispensary The intention of this preface is not to persuade⟳ mankind to enter⟳ into our quarrels, but to vindicate the author from being censured for taking any indecent liberty with a faculty he has the honour to be a member of.”

“It would, therefore, hardly be deemed an indecent liberty in the most private citizen, to offer⟳ his thoughts to the consideration of the Executive.”

“Mr. Sheil taunted the Ministers with having, at a private meeting, threatened their supporters with resignation if the Bill were rejected : they had much better have⟳ appealed to the country. / Lord Stanley sharply denied that Ministers had taken the "indecent liberty" imputed to them by Mr. Sheil”

“... pinching, tickling, rubbing up against, and other forms of contact⟳ in places such as elevators and grocery stores may constitute an indecent liberty.”

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