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[ UK /ˌɪndˈiːsənsi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdisənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being indecent
  2. an indecent or improper act

How To Use indecency In A Sentence

  • At Preston crown court he was cleared of four charges of gross indecency. Times, Sunday Times
  • To some parents, accustomed to the security of child-friendly TV schedules, the advent of the internet seemed like a plague of indecency intruding into the family home.
  • Mr Counsellor Fielding follows his retrospect of this strenuous attack on the law with a declaration that, henceforth, he intends to forsake the pursuit of that 'foolscap' literary fame, and the company of the 'infamous' nine Muses; a decision based partly on the insubstantial nature of the rewards achieved, and partly it would seem due to the fact that at Fielding's innocent door had been laid, he declares, half the anonymous scurrility, indecency, treason, and blasphemy that the few last years had produced. Henry Fielding A Memoir
  • Read in studio A Bishop questioned over allegations of indecency has had police bail extended.
  • His defence was a complete denial of any indecency.
  • Now, in terms of the broadcast indecency standard here, we are talking about viewpoints, opinions on various subjects.
  • The 52 year old Stern had previously run 'afoul' of the US Federal Communications Commission, fining him and commercial radio stations carrying his syndicated interview show for indecency/obscenity violations. Archive 2006-02-01
  • It is but just to say that Democrats of the better sort totally disapproved of this public indecency and excuseless outrage. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes
  • He was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after admitting a sexual relationship with a man.
  • And we cannot authorize indecency without jeopardizing our survival as a decent society.
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