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单词 indecency
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(ɪndiːsənsi)
1. uncountable noun
If you talk about the indecency of something or someone, you are indicating that you find them morally or sexually offensive.
...the indecency of their language. [+ of]
2. uncountable noun
In law, an act of indecency is an illegal sexual act.
They were found guilty of acts of gross indecency.
Synonyms: obscenity, impurity, lewdness, impropriety More Synonyms of indecency

indecency in British English

(ɪnˈdiːsənsɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -cies
1. 
the state or quality of being indecent
2. 
an indecent act, etc

indecency in American English

(ɪnˈdisənsi)
noun
1. 
the state or quality of being indecent; lack of modesty, taste, or propriety
2. Word forms: plural inˈdecencies
an indecent act, statement, etc.
Word origin
L indecentia

Examples of 'indecency' in a sentence
indecency

Salt has admitted 25 new indecency counts.
The Sun (2011)
He was jailed for three years last summer after admitting 13 indecency charges.
The Sun (2006)
At Preston crown court he was cleared of four charges of gross indecency.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The next day, three of them were arrested for public indecency and insulting behaviour.
Shawn Levy READY, STEADY, GO!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool (2002)
Stunned police charged him with public indecency - a crime because he lives near a school.
The Sun (2008)
He could be charged with committing an act of public indecency, which usually results in a fine if the case goes to court.
The Sun (2006)
Here too, there was a genuine sense of personal offence; the feeling that an act of indecency had been committed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Last week, the pair were sentenced to a month in prison and fined 180 after being found guilty of indecency and illegal drinking.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In other languages
indecency

British English: indecency NOUN
If you talk about the indecency of something or someone, you are indicating that you find them morally offensive.
...the indecency of their language.
  • American English: indecency
  • Brazilian Portuguese: indecência
  • Chinese: 下流
  • European Spanish: indecencia
  • French: indécence
  • German: Unanständigkeit
  • Italian: indecenza
  • Japanese: 下品
  • Korean: 무례
  • European Portuguese: indecência
  • Latin American Spanish: indecencia

(noun) 
He behaved himself toward me with ill manner, indecency and disrespect.
Synonyms
obscenity
He justified the use of obscenity on the grounds that it was art.
impurity
impurity and evil desires
lewdness
The critics condemned the play for lewdness.
impropriety
She proudly recoiled from any suggestion of impropriety.
pornography
a campaign against pornography on television
vulgarity
a comedian famous for his vulgarity and irreverence
coarseness
Forgive my coarseness in mentioning this.
crudity
I had not expected such crudity from so sophisticated a person.
licentiousness
foulness
outrageousness
immodesty
grossness
vileness
bawdiness
unseemliness
indelicacy
smuttiness
indecorum
smut
Opposites
purity
,
decency
,
delicacy
,
modesty
,
propriety
,
decorum
,
seemliness

Additional synonyms

in the sense of coarseness
Forgive my coarseness in mentioning this.
Synonyms
vulgarity,
smut,
roughness,
poor taste,
earthiness,
crudity,
offensiveness,
boorishness,
ribaldry,
bawdiness,
uncouthness,
indelicacy,
smuttiness
in the sense of crudity
I had not expected such crudity from so sophisticated a person.
Synonyms
vulgarity,
obscenity,
indecency,
impropriety,
rudeness,
coarseness,
crudeness,
lewdness,
lowness,
indelicacy,
smuttiness
in the sense of grossness
Synonyms
coarseness,
obscenity,
sensuality,
indecency,
impurity,
rudeness,
vulgarity,
smut,
bestiality,
crudity,
licentiousness,
offensiveness,
ribaldry,
unseemliness,
indelicacy,
smuttiness

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