obsceneadjective
uk/əbˈsiːn/us/əbˈsiːn/C2 offensive, rude, or shocking, usually because of being too obviously related to sex or showing sex:
In the raid, police found several boxes of obscene DVDs.
He was jailed for making obscene phone calls (= ones in which unwanted sexual suggestions were made to the listener).
obscene language/graffiti
C2 morally wrong, often describing something that is wrong because it is too large:
to make obscene profits
The salaries some bankers earn are obscene.
He eats obscene amounts of food.
More examples
- Somebody's been posting obscene messages in this chat room.
- Recently she has been the target of a series of obscene phone calls.
- His paintings are just obscene.
- They scrawled obscene messages on his car windscreen.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- immoral
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- sinful
- wickedness
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obscenely
adverb uk/əbˈsiːn.li/us/əbˈsiːn.li/
He's obscenely rich/fat/cruel.