indecency (noun)
1indecency — indecent ► ADJECTIVE 1) not conforming with accepted standards of behaviour or morality. 2) not appropriate; unseemly: indecent haste. DERIVATIVES indecency noun indecently adverb …
2indecency — I noun impropriety, indecorousness, indelicacy, obnoxiousness, tastelessness, unseemingliness, untastefulness, vulgarity associated concepts: indecent assault, indecent exposure, indecent liberties, indecent publications, lewd and lascivious… …
3indecency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ gross ▪ public ▪ broadcast (AmE) ▪ legislation to multiply broadcast indecency fines PHRASES ▪ …
4indecency — (n.) 1580s, from L. indecentia unseemliness, impropriety, noun of quality from indecentem (see INDECENT (Cf. indecent)) …
5indecency — noun (U) law behaviour that is sexually offensive, especially indecent exposure: gross indecency …
6indecency — noun Date: 1589 1. the quality or state of being indecent 2. something (as a word or action) that is indecent …
7indecency — noun a) lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent b) something showing lack of decency; something such as a word that is indecent …
8indecency — noun 1. the quality of being indecent • Ant: ↑decency • Derivationally related forms: ↑indecent • Hypernyms: ↑impropriety, ↑improperness • Hyponyms: ↑ …
9indecency — in|de|cen|cy [ ın disnsi ] noun uncount 1. ) the offensive or shocking nature of something 2. ) LEGAL in British law, indecency is a crime involving offensive sexual behavior: an act of gross indecency …
10indecency — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being indecent] Syn. coarseness, grossness, bawdiness, vulgarity; see lewdness . 2. [An instance of indecency] Syn. impurity, immodesty, offense, incivility, impropriety, indecorum, ribaldry, indelicacy,… …