indecency
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Playing some of these songs in public is rude and perhaps illegal indecency.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
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
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 Paul Elmer More
“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
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
It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
They received, not simply, a living wage, but a wage that paid for some of the decencies, and, in East St. Louis, many of the indecencies of life.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
When I once remonstrated against the indecencies which are injected into the imagination of the adolescent by the plays, Mr. Bayard Veiller, the talented author of “The Fight,” answered in a Sunday newspaper.
From Psychology and Social Sanity by Hugo Münsterberg
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