Indecency

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indecency \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. {Indecencies}. [L. indecentia
     unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency,
        modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
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     2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
        offense against delicacy.
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              They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
              or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
              allude to, are pests of society.      --Beattie.
  
     Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
          See {Indecorum}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indecency
       n 1: the quality of being indecent [ant: {decency}]
       2: an indecent or improper act [syn: {impropriety}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecency":
     Babbittry, andromania, aphrodisia, bad taste, biological urge,
     bodily appetite, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, carnal desire,
     concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism,
     erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania,
     high camp, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, impropriety, impurity,
     inappropriateness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy,
     inelegance, inelegancy, infantile sexuality, itch, kitsch,
     lasciviousness, libidinousness, low camp, lust, lustfulness,
     maculacy, nymphomania, passion, philistinism,
     polymorphous perversity, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prurience,
     pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing,
     sexual passion, soiledness, sulliedness, taintedness,
     tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness,
     unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness,
     unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness,
     unvirtuousness, venereal appetite, vulgar taste, vulgarism,
     vulgarity, vulgarness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R. 
  91. 
       2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to 
  good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of 
  disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence. 3 
  Bouv. Inst. n. 3216. 
       3. The following are examples of indecency: the exposure by a man of 
  his naked person on a balcony, to public view, or bathing in public; 2 
  Campb. 89; or the exhibition of bawdy pictures. 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 42; 2 Serg. 
  & Rawle, 91. This indecency is punishable by indictment. Vide 1 Sid. 168; S. 
  C. 1 Keb. 620; 2 Yerg. R. 482, 589; 1 Mass. Rep. 8; 2 Chan. Cas. 110; 1 
  Russ. Cr. 302; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 5, s. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 65, n.; 1 East, P. C. c. 
  1, s. 1; Burn's Just. Lewdness.