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obscenityob‧scen‧i‧ty /əbˈsenəti/ noun (plural obscenities)   - Protestors hurled rocks and screamed obscenities.
- Rick burst into the apartment, drunk and shouting obscenities.
- Someone had written obscenities all over the classroom wall.
- But the pleasure I took in hearing about his obscenities soon passed.
- He suspected her existence was an obscenity.
- President Nixon punctuated his Watergate tapes with obscenities.
- The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
- The teens, agitated by their restriction, were randomly leaving their living quarters and vehemently hurling obscenities and spitting at staff.
- This would, in Britain, be a test of indecency, not obscenity.
rude and offensive words► bad/foul language formal language that most people think is offensive: · Even very young children are using foul language at school.· The computer chip allows parents to block programs containing violence, sex, or bad language. ► strong language language that most people think is offensive - used especially to warn people that there may be offensive words used in a film or television programme: · The following programme contains strong language, and some viewers may find it offensive.· The film has lots of violence, scenes of drug-taking, and strong language. ► colourful language language that uses a lot of swear words - use this in humorous contexts: · The colourful language of some of the characters may make it unsuitable for younger viewers. ► four-letter word a word that most people think is extremely offensive, especially one that is connected with sex or the sexual organs: · Rap songs are full of four-letter words.· It's a family show, with no four-letter words. ► swear word a rude and offensive word that people use especially when they are angry: · He wasn't the type of man to use swear words.· We had to take all the swear words out of the play. ► obscenity a word or expression, especially about sex, that most people think is extremely offensive: · Someone had written obscenities all over the classroom wall.· Rick burst into the apartment, drunk and shouting obscenities. ► unprintable remarks, words etc that are unprintable are too offensive to appear in a newspaper, magazine, or book: · Most of what she said in the interview was unprintable.· Chief McNally admits he's been called many things, some of them unprintable. ► shout obscenities· They came to his apartment, shouting obscenities and threatening him. NOUN► law· In a male supremacist society the only obscenity law that will not be used against women is no law at all.· It also wants a reform of the defamation and obscenity laws.· The operation of the obscenity law depended to some extent upon the crusading zeal of current law officers. VERB► shout· We drove past guys in gang colors, shouting obscenities, throwing bottles, hanging out.· About 30 percent of the time, these largely involuntary vocalizations consist of shouting words, sometimes obscenities. 1[uncountable] sexually offensive language or behaviour, especially in a book, play, film etc:  laws against obscenity2[countable usually plural] a sexually offensive word or action → swear: drunken youths screaming obscenities |