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
In the 1960s, homosexuality was partially decriminalised, but related criminal offences were still illegal, including gross indecency.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
Nor did he accept the fact that Spectrum’s planned “PG-13” performance falls far short of indecency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
There is a lack of emotional breeding, almost an indecency, in Swinburne's easy familiarity with these great things of the spirit.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
“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
When I was young, Walt Whitman seemed to have been established as a strange, erratic, and godless person, whose indecencies were his principal stock in trade.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis
She never is guilty of those little indecencies which affect some men a great deal.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock
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