indecent

Example Sentences

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Elizabeth Harker, 63, from Luton, admitted sending voicemails to Rayner which were "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character", as well as messages to a woman in Luton.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Burkina Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore at the time said the proposal was "indecent".

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

Back home, after the train ride, I washed and dried the mushrooms and sent them sizzling into a pan with shallots, garlic, salt, pepper and an indecent amount of smoked paprika.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

Other recommendations include better street lighting, improvements to information about positive masculinity for men and boys and targeted consistent public messaging about how to report crimes such as indecent exposure.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

He did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behavior, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling