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."


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