indecency

Example Sentences

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But the Parents Television Council Inc. — whose members lodged thousands of indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission — has folded.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2023

“We are talking about the bedrock values of who we are as a country and the human indecency that we are seeing,” Jean-Pierre said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023

But civil liberties groups thought the prohibitions on online indecency violated the First Amendment and squelched free speech.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2023

I turn not from the harsh rebuke of this young lady, albeit I am not insensible to its injustice,—nor, indeed, blind to its indecency.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs