indecency
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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
He said it was public indecency punishable by Namibian law.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024
Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
I have had the indecency to be ashamed of myself for the most human and womanly thing I ever did in my life.
From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee
“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
It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Mr. Talmage charges that you have said there are indecencies in the Bible.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
All their genius, learning, and interest, will not be able to save them from the withering effect of their accumulated horrors, shocking indecencies, and demoralizing tendency.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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