Meaning of obscenery | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of obscenity.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]”

“Dammit to hell, I don't want any little slut that talks such obsceneries in my place. I can see it coming, she'll corrupt the whole neighborhood.”

“Each town in its petty pace, crawling with marvellous obscenery, creaky with scenic retractions, lighting each tourist the way to dusty deserts and big bald rocks.”

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