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obscene
has definitions from the field of sexuality
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[ adjective ] (sexuality) designed to incite to indecency or lust
Examples "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Once covertly looking at Simms_Purdew , the only man in the world whom he hated , he had seen the heavy , slack , bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel , obscene banter , and had seen the pale blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment , and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)And so they went , he choosing of all places an inn near Medmenham_Abbey , scene a generation ago of the obscene orgies of the Hellfire_Club . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] offensive to the mind
Synonyms Examples "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" Related terms |
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