Indecency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INDECENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being indecent
• indecent behaviour
• an indecent act or expression
• state or quality of being indecent
• The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
• That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
• an indecent or improper act
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being indecent

Words related to INDECENCY

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How to use INDECENCY in a sentence

• Leigh Hunt was not merely a poet, for he was also a radical, and therefore in the opinions of Tories, a believer in immorality and indecency.
• I am very much of your opinion, and, like you, feel great indignation at the indecency with which the King is every day treated.
• He had not been guilty of a direct indecency to you.
• It is not to be doubted but if this Failing were set in a proper Light, he would quickly perceive the Indecency and evil Consequences of it.
• A clergyman, his worldliness and vanity and the indecency of his writings were a scandal to the Church, though his sermons were both witty and affecting.
• Not a word, or look, or gesture of insolence or indecency did we observe.
• Hutchinson Hypocrite woman Indecency of Jones Jones, Henry Lewis, Benjamin Lewis, Isham Lewis, Lilburn Lewis, Rev.
• If mere indecency could justify Desnoyers in his attempt to destroy a masterpiece, this picture deserved its fate.
• And it requires battery and barricade, songs in the streets, and ragged men dead for an idea, to produce and justify the terrible flower of French indecency.
• There are, for example, desertion, domestic neglect, cruelty to the children drunkenness or harmful drug-taking, indecency of living and uncontrollable extravagance.
• I objected the indecency of encroaching on his life, and the danger of provoking him by such an unseasonable demand.
• To take off their caps when they salute one another, or even accidentally to appear uncovered, is esteemed the height of ill breeding and indecency.
• She loathed arm-in-arm confidences, the indecency of dragging up and exposing, in whispers, things that should have been buried deep in reticence.
• Indecency was an element of the ludicrous in the old Greek Comedy, as it has been in other ages and countries.
• Far different is the luminous and varied Western swearing, which runs to blasphemy rather than indecency.
• These the ladies of the older type considered a ruinous luxury because of the expense, and an indecency because of the prominence which they gave to the figure.
• With regard to dramatic performers, of whom he was very fond, he severely examined their morals, not allowing licentiousness in their lives, nor indecency in their actions.
• So, crude indecency aside, what would be immoral in prose ceases to be immoral in verse, for in poetry Art follows its own code and form transcends the subject matter.
• There is laughter at sallies of indecency, and the spectators grunt their applause.
• Her face, which now seemed younger than ever, wore a look of important seriousness as though she were conscious of the indecency of her earlier excitement.
• Cartwright, whose curiosity was ungovernable, had been guilty of the folly and indecency of coming to Westminster in order to hear the decision.
• This particular Failure in the Ancients, opens a large Field of Raillery to the little Wits, who can laugh at an Indecency but not relish the Sublime in these Sorts of Writings.
• SPECTATOR, I beg you would be pleased to take Notice of a very great Indecency, which is extreamly common, though, I think, never yet under your Censure.
• To his credit be it said, he condemns indecency, both as want of sense and bad taste.
• There was not enough wit in this narrator to relieve his indecency, and I felt shame at having been surprised into laughing with him.
• An openness of manner in the relations of the sexes is very charming, but a little more, and it is boldness, or, if it relates to bodily habits, indecency.
• Wilkes was punished for the indecency of his publications, or the impiety of his ransacked closet.

Similar words containing DECEN without suffix cy and without prefix in

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