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What does obscenity mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word obscenity? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable) Something that is obscene.
  2. (countable) An act of obscene behaviour.
  3. (countable) Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
  4. (uncountable) The qualities that make something obscene; lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour.
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This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of barbarism, if there was any threat.
For this they were hauled up in a New York court on either obscenity or public decency charges.
Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism.
A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
Charged with obscenity, the 60-year-old professor not only fearfully complied with the cops but immediately finked on two friends.
Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey.

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