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Meaning of Obscenity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Something that is obscene.
  2. An act of obscene behaviour.
  3. Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
  4. Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material.
  5. The fact of being obscene.

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Examples

“Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"”
“Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.”
“Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.”
“Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.”
“The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.”
“Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.”
“Henia Flint Goodman, a Holocaust survivor,spoke in outrage against the obscenity of anti-abortion literature which compares a woman's free choice to have an abortion with the crimes of the Nazi state.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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