indecency
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It is Douglas who is eventually prosecuted for indecency, goes to prison and dies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Playing some of these songs in public is rude and perhaps illegal indecency.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
The PTC’s power came, in large part, from its ability to flood the FCC with indecency complaints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
In the 1960s, homosexuality was partially decriminalised, but related criminal offences were still illegal, including gross indecency.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
Such are the details briefly stated that were given to the judge who tried the men who committed this outrageous public indecency.
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
“Even those who think themselves inured to the indecencies of modern fiction will find much of ‘The Tin Drum’ excessively nasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is Rabelais, with his huge buffoonery, and the earnest eyes intent on freedom, which look out at us in the midst of the zany's tumblings and indecencies.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
The blue sash winced primly at the word biological, and appealed to her escort to protect her somehow from the indecencies of life.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
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