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
I hope nothing I say may diminish our sense of its indecency.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
“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
D'Annunzio is a greater writer than Zola, not because he has emulated or surpassed Zola's indecencies, but because he is what Zola never was—a scholar and a poet.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
The indecencies now practiced in the name of art and the drama are enough to make the immortal William turn in his grave.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
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