Words similar to obscenity
Example sentences for: obscenity
How can you use “obscenity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Lanzmann arrived, "forbade" the film to be shown (his own word), called it an "obscenity" (because it showed more Nazi baby pictures!)
In Israel, under the headline "Another UN obscenity," an editorial in the conservative Jerusalem Post stridently condemned the Rome agreement's inclusion, on Arab initiative, of a paragraph that defined as a war crime an occupying power's transfer of a civilians to territory it has occupied.
In real life, it was Gene Reeves Jr. who was shot, along with Flynt, during the publisher's 1978 obscenity trial.
It also means ferocious lyrics: Manson's songs are a foul stew of obscenity, violence, Satanism, scatology, anti-Christian invective, sadomasochism, and suicide.
There are two exceptions to this: child pornography (sexually explicit pictures made using child models) and "obscenity"--but both are much smaller categories than the CDA's "indecency."