The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. [1913 Webster]
That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. [1913 Webster]
"They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society."

Syn. -- Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See Indecorum.

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THESAURUS

Indecency

Babbittry, andromania, aphrodisia, bad taste, biological urge, bodily appetite, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, carnal desire, concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, high camp, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infantile sexuality, itch, kitsch, lasciviousness, libidinousness, low camp, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, nymphomania, passion, philistinism, polymorphous perversity, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prurience, pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, soiledness, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unvirtuousness, venereal appetite, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

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ROGET THESAURUS

Indecency

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

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