Words similar to obscene
Example sentences for: obscene
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Back during the Nixon administration, Supreme Court decisions permitted some "obscene" materials to be distributed only if they were combined with other matters that had "redeeming social value."
In that year, the Obscene Publications Act first introduced a defense of artistic merit.
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.
Maksoud, a former Arab League diplomat now heading the Center for the Global South at the American University in Washington, noted a "frightening and obscene" convergence between Serbia's ethnic cleansing and the behavior of NATO, which has taken international law into its own hands.
This is on a par with the attribution of leave me be to a Celtic origin having something to do with a warning against raiding hives or the ascription of the origin of the name of an obscene prosthetic device to a woman from Water Isle (the Duchess d'Île d'eau ).