How To Use Indecency In A Sentence
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At Preston crown court he was cleared of four charges of gross indecency.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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Read in studio A Bishop questioned over allegations of indecency has had police bail extended.
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His defence was a complete denial of any indecency.
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Now, in terms of the broadcast indecency standard here, we are talking about viewpoints, opinions on various subjects.
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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
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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
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He was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after admitting a sexual relationship with a man.
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And we cannot authorize indecency without jeopardizing our survival as a decent society.
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The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
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This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting -- it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency.
Middlemarch
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His celebratory streak ended with arrest by police for indecency.
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Can such alleged moral indecency justify the forced entry into one's home without any warrant?
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The search for a comparison is important because the high court has handled indecency cases differently depending on the medium.
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Indeed, in Quebec, to call a person cochon is to charge him with indecency.
Janey Canuck in the West
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In a paper to be published in the University of California Law Review, Australia's Deakin University School of Law head and his confrère argue that not torturing terror suspects ‘verges on moral indecency.’
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Read in studio A Bishop questioned over allegations of indecency has had police bail extended.
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It's there in Magnolia, when Linda Partridge realises too late that she actually loves the dying husband she married for money, and breaks down in a chemist's: "You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life," she bellows at the pharmacist, "suck my dick!
Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry'
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The term gross indecency was not statutorily defined and was to be given meaning by courts on the particular facts of each case.
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Congress is looking at reforming indecency laws to be much tougher on transgressors.
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I realized that the decency of one man atones for the indecency of millions.
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But prosecutors in the Anwar Ibrahim indecency trial knew the exact moment of the chauffeur's trauma.
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The charges against them include public indecency, inappropriate behaviour, behaviour to the detriment of military discipline and assault.
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Read in studio A Bishop questioned over allegations of indecency has had police bail extended.
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And the FCC's indecency policy is virtually identical to the definition of indecency the court struck down as unconstitutionally vague in 1997 with respect to Internet content.
Broadcast 'Indecency' on Trial
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It would be wrong to suggest that police officers were not annoyed by acts of indecency.
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He could be charged with committing an act of public indecency, which usually results in a fine if the case goes to court.
The Sun
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In 1967, he was convicted of gross indecency by Weymouth magistrates.
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It recounts the story of a woman giving evidence in an indecency case and being asked what the accused man said to her.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were bailed to appear before Liverpool magistrates next month, when they will face charges of gross indecency.
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One FCC Commissioner urged that new guidelines on indecency be written after last year's broadcast.
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The blinding, dazzling gas-light throws a grateful glare over the salient points of its indecency, and blends the whole into a wild whirl that dizzies and dazes one; but the uncompromising afternoon, pouring in through manifold windows, tears away every illusion, and reveals the whole coarseness and commonness and all the repulsive details of this most alien and unmaidenly revel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Ward will be charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency and public intoxication at the Calgary courthouse on Monday.
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The co-defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of committing an act of gross indecency with the appellant.
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They were found guilty of acts of gross indecency.
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The reason that some senators want indecency to stay on the air is because they themselves are indecent.
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Says the appeals court: Because Reno holds that a regulation that covers speech that "in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs" is unconstitutionally vague, we are skeptical that the FCC's identically-worded indecency test could nevertheless provide the requisite clarity to withstand constitutional scrutiny.
Jeff Jarvis: The First Amendment Wins One
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Indecency is a much broader and more widely used category of offence.
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It seems to us that the suggestion that there should be separate trials of the rape and indecency charges in the present case was simply unrealistic.
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The case concerned a headmaster who was charged with gross indecency.
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Does this display run afoul of public indecency laws?
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It recounts the story of a woman giving evidence in an indecency case and being asked what the accused man said to her.
Times, Sunday Times
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France, as established in the courts in 1857, the criterion was outrage aux bonnes moeurs - public indecency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gravamen in respect of each charge is the allegation of indecency, without which the committee are unlikely, in my view, to find Serious Professional Misconduct.
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The search for a comparison is important because the high court has handled indecency cases differently depending on the medium.
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He pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency.
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Salt has admitted 25 new indecency counts.
The Sun
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Still cooling his anger from earlier that morning, thoughts of ungratefulness and indecency swirled in his mind.
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It recounts the story of a woman giving evidence in an indecency case and being asked what the accused man said to her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through our bad parenting, which sets wrong examples, we have institutionalized insensitivity and indecency and made them virtues.
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Indecency Versus Obscenity: The Different Forms of Regulation and Punishment.
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The search for a comparison is important because the high court has handled indecency cases differently depending on the medium.
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Conservatives in Congress are talking about subjecting cable TV to the same indecency regs that govern broadcast networks.
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And today, police confirmed the Bishop had been formally cautioned for an act of gross indecency.
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The search for a comparison is important because the high court has handled indecency cases differently depending on the medium.
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Here too, there was a genuine sense of personal offence; the feeling that an act of indecency had been committed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
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After which, the next consideration immediately subsequent to the being of a thing, is what agrees or disagrees with that thing; what is suitable or unsuitable to it; and from this springs the notion of decency or indecency; that which becomes or misbecomes, and is the same with honestum et turpe.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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He talks about the need to bring indecency laws that now cover broadcast TV to make sure they cover cable TV as well.
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He was jailed for three years last summer after admitting 13 indecency charges.
The Sun
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Stunned police charged him with public indecency - a crime because he lives near a school.
The Sun
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The appellant, Norman Mattison, was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with his co-defendant.
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In the light of this provision, we do not accept that H has grounds for contesting the element of indecency in his conviction.
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It recounts the story of a woman giving evidence in an indecency case and being asked what the accused man said to her.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old lady has her hand over her mouth like I have just spoken an indecency (which I guess I did).
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It's there in Magnolia, when Linda Partridge realises too late that she actually loves the dying husband she married for money, and breaks down in a chemist's: "You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life," she bellows at the pharmacist, "suck my dick!
Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry'
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Moreover, the FCC's indecency standard is unconstitutionally vague.
Broadcast 'Indecency' on Trial
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Since 1927, the United States government has regulated against indecent language, obscenity, and indecency.
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Official charges are public indecency and public lewdness.
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Last week, the pair were sentenced to a month in prison and fined 180 after being found guilty of indecency and illegal drinking.
Times, Sunday Times
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The FCC definition of indecency focuses on language deemed patently offensive by community broadcast standards.
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Keith was convicted of five gross indecency and three indecent assault charges at Swindon Crown Court on Tuesday.
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“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”
How to Write Conversationally | Write to Done
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Do your sexual encounters place you in danger of arrest for lewd conduct or public indecency?
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Eating the cake, he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth, every mouthful an act of shared indecency.
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The adults, who had been staying in the motel room, were charged with cruelty to children, public indecency and obstruction of police and were taken to a psychiatric ward.
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That case, in combination with the more recent controversy, shows why it's time to get rid of broadcast indecency law forever.
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The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
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In a few videotaped moments, the yobs commit at least three offences: public indecency, trespass and burglary.
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The next day, three of them were arrested for public indecency and insulting behaviour.
READY, STEADY, GO!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool
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The commission has proposed no indecency fines during his five months in the chair.
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I hate the indecency shown by people by spitting and peeing on the roads.
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It was unclear exactly how he would go about further criminalizing the indecency statutes.
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And the shop that stood between the pawnshop and the shop of dreary indecency showed with quite a blaze of old world beauty, for it was, by accident, a shop not unbeautiful in itself.
Weatherwatch: City streets paved with gold
