How To Use Obscene In A Sentence

I'm not easily shocked, but that book really is obscene.
I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
They have cut the obscene passages from the film to show it on television.
The very idea of a “man of God” and a “preacher” making six figures, driving luxury cars and living in gated communities, with expense accounts, country club memberships and obese bodies is laughable and obscene. Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else
As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling. The Sun

The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene.
The principal explanation lies in the obscene moral inversion of victim culture.
In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general. Indian Unrest
The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, “Is the Bible Indictable?”, in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling. Autobiographical Sketches
When he dunks the ball, he rises obscenely high, rotates his arms in the air as if doing one of those over-the-head medicine ball exercises, and then unleashes upon the basket.
According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances.
As each news bulletin heralds an upwards revision of long past obscene totals, alternative conclusions are easy to avoid.
Where do these obscene amounts of money end up? The Sun
It also gained the distinction of being banned in America - presumably because of all those obscene, ribald, raunchy bits about marriage being a partnership of equals.
Recently she has been the target of a series of obscene phone calls.
(Part of me wants to remix Waco footage, add the sexy voice of a woman talking in sadistic terms, and releasing this on the internet, simultaneously satirizing crush videos and portaying the government actions in this case as “obscene.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
Whether it's millions, billions, trillions or bajillions, the dollar figures are so obscenely high that they no longer have any real understandable value.
the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
The murderously obscene verse that he occasionally turned on his rivals and enemies matched the aggression and violence of the time, but it also sprang from the same tormented and inspired source as his own helpless love.
It becomes the vehicle for corporate branding of the most vulgar sort and it encourages waste on an obscene scale.
Any local band can apply to play a set on stage, but organisers are warning acts that obscene lyrics and lewd behaviour are out of the question.
As communications technology evolves, so will the technology that would allow parents to block obscene or offensive information.
As John noted, both networks '"journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes -- in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment. Who Ordered the Petard?
The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent.
This poverty coexists with obscene wealth at the other end of the social scale.
London is prey to an obscene and unprecedented landgrab. Times, Sunday Times
This is gratuitous violence, sick, bone-crunching, vicious and obscene.
A local man has been arrested after making obscene phone calls to a TV weathergirl.
Toss in some truly spine-tingling, horrifying imagery (the monsters are really scary folks, be it in color or the black and white version available on DVD/Blu Ray), plus one of the most obscenely-grim endings in cinema history, and you have the makings of a genuine horror classic. Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years.
The people who do the most to avoid paying tax are the ones who get paid obscene amounts. The Sun
His comic act became boring recitations of his troubles with police who would bust up his act as "obscene."
A false moral equivalence is a sub-type of false equivalence; things can be aesthetically obscene and not morally obscene; the last question hardly makes sense but insofar as it does the answer is yes. Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity
There was no inhuman obscene caress, no acid caking on her flesh.
The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
The Court ruled that such speech could be punished even if it was not legally obscene and did not cause substantial disruption.
Karl Rove and his fellow GOP hatchetmen are raking in obscene amounts of undisclosed money, using it to lie to voters, all the while lying about the campaign finance fiasco that's allowing them to buy an election cycle. Happy Hour Roundup
Films, whether shown in public cinemas or cinema clubs, were brought within the scope of the Obscene Publications Act 1959.
Mothering takes on new meaning, and the mundane becomes surreal Kate's goldfish, according to the oceanologist Sara consults in a desperate effort to save the pet's life, requires bottled water, and the mere thought of buying Jesse a new pair of soccer cleats after Kate relapses seems downright obscene. My Sister's Keeper: Summary and book reviews of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Pilots can take the craft within inches of rock walls at obscene speeds. Times, Sunday Times
Largely, this can be explained by the embarrassment many of them feel about their obscene and unearned mega-fortunes.
All these exotic visitors, whose stories are perhaps too briefly told here, were the subject of obscene civilisational value judgments. Times, Sunday Times
By the 1970s, the Obscene Publications Squad was thoroughly corrupt. Archive 2004-06-01
And people look as if the poor old dear has said something obscene.
Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed. Toiling in the Dream Factory
While I've argued plenty of times before about the media's irrepressibly giddy lust for slapping the term "epidemic" on any and every problem that effects a large enough group, there are far too many obscenely overweight people across this great land of ours, and if you think it's simply a personal decision that affects no one but them and the Wal-Mart scooters whose suspension systems they push to the point of collapse, think again. Chez Pazienza: Food Fighter: Freedom of Choice vs. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution?
His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar.
They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories.
I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones.
Football chants are cruel, obscene, offensive, sometimes downright sick and often very funny.
Many of his films were seized on moral grounds by higher censorial authorities, denounced as blasphemous and obscene.
When breastfeeding is no longer considered sexual or obscene, when woman are allowed to birth wherever and with whomever they choose, when children are no longer beaten to death in the name of discipline, then we can call ourselves a developed nation. It’s no wonder… « WholeSelfCoach
Vigorous, amusing, and obscene, it burlesques a current production of Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of the Dryden - Davenant adaptation.
Your obscene actions only show who you are, that you are a hateful person and that you deserve no one and no friends.
He was allegedly uncooperative and became verbally abusive, using foul 4 - letter words and obscene hand gestures.
Let republicans stand up for international corporations, who pay no taxes and pour obscene amounts of money into the pockets of their senators and see what the reaction is among the populace. Think Progress » Lobbyists For Foreign Corporations Begin Fight To Ensure Foreign Money Can Influence American Elections
In any trial, the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the material is obscene.
V. i.112 (241,5) [as fat and fulsome] [W: flat] _Fat_ means _dull_; so we say a _fatheaded_ fellow; _fat_ likewise means _gross_, and is sometimes used for _obscene_; and _fat_ is more congruent to _fulsome_ than _flat_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Well, foul speech may be offensive, but who can say with certainty what is obscene?
Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public.
Nothing in the First Amendment requires that a jury must consider hypothetical and unascertainable “national standards” when attempting to determine whether certain materials are obscene as a matter of fact. . . The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Adopts National Standard for Internet Obscenity
In its final form, this criminal statute prohibited trafficking in "obscene" materials related to sex or reproduction, and forbade the "use of any drug, medicine, article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception. 'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
They said the film was obscene and vulgar and showed women in a poor light.
I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
He stands there, as he usually does, with his doltish smirk lighting up his face, until he sees someone he knows, at which time he goes over, pokes them a couple of times with an obscene nickname, snickers and runs off to hide in the brush. Think Progress » Ingraham: Americans Are Saying ‘Maybe That Bush Guy Wasn’t Quite As Bad As We Thought’
Two million pounds is an obscene amount to spend on one disgraced individual. The Sun
Obscene video tapes and counterfeit CD-ROMs are sometimes ordered crushed by steamrollers, and I believe mobile phones should suffer the same fate.
They have been disemployed by decisions of those who hold power in our society, who have used their power to grasp even more power by dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns, who have used their power to win obscene tax cuts so as to put even more money into buying more power to keep the disemployed in their despair -- and all of us in stupor. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now
This form of destitution in the midst of plenty is not only morally obscene; it has social consequences which affect everyone.
There have been a number of cases where the courts have refused to enforce copyright as the works in question were considered libellous, immoral, obscene, scandalous or irreligious.
The rich are almost obscenely wealthy, while the poor live in shocking conditions.
obscene telephone calls
The right side of his face was not entirely immobile, but rigid, as though molded from some obscene plastic, and above it the bare front of his scalp was frail and spotted brown, like a quail's egg.
An ad I'd like to see to drive home the urgent need for health insurance reform would proclaim, in the baldest way, that the health-insurance industry is burning through lobbying money now to protect their obscene profits for prosperity. Trey Ellis: Can $133 Million Ounces of Prevention Beat a Pound of Cure?
The conspicuous display of obscene wealth is not a creation of Forbes or the Tatler, but goes back to the Pyramids and beyond.
I can not bear this obscene, grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others, it has never failed to repel me.
This is an obscene abuse of political power.
The critic recently slammed her ‘obscene’ boniness, which she felt cynically exploited real-life victims of famine, illness and genocide.
When the lever is pulled, the body twists and shudders violently, cooks and sizzles obscenely, and emits horrible noises from the nose, mouth and anus.
Just as the musicians' lyrics are violent, obscene and self-pitying, so is the generation that supports their opulent lifestyle.
So it seems to me that either Justice Breyer is right that COPA affects very little protected i.e., nonobscene speech — but then striking it down affects the government’s power to shield children very little. The Volokh Conspiracy » COPA and obscenity law:
The row lifted the lid on the taboo surrounding often obscene art and graffiti in French hospitals. Times, Sunday Times
Over the past few years, authorities have cracked down on bars in response to complaints of indecent or obscene behaviour.
He announces his arrival with a long, low, almost obscene whistle that sounds as though someone had just uncaged a large, evil bird.
He continued to use obscene language and also to make threats.
In the resulting hoo-ha, Harris was prosecuted and sent to trial for publishing supposedly obscene verse.
She cried and made obscene gestures as she was led from court to start three years and nine months behind bars.
The world would be a happier place if these footballers stopped rubbing our noses in their obscene wealth. The Sun
What we have now is a short-lived amassment of goods and spectacular high living for the obscenely wealthy, who must be thinking 'AprÃ¨s nous le dÃ©luge' [1] if they are thinking at all, which is doubtful. Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion?
The long legs parted as the pale blue water took her, like an obscene gesture at Liz.
It sounds obscene, but it's the short form of Ungespundetes, a beer matured in barrels with open bungholes so the fermentation fizz escapes.
You agree not to post or transmit to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
Content based discrimination against nonobscene speech runs headlong into contemporary first amendment law. Discourse.net: Michael Masinter's Guide to the Legal Issues in U.Md. Porn Screening Case
Caplan’s willingness to embrace the darkness, however, is what makes this book so important: It articulates in lurid detail the obscene id of Chicago-school, Grover-Norquist-style, free market fundamentalism (a term Caplan spends a chapter rebutting). Bryan Gets Some Pushback, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Some players earn obscene amounts of money.
Time had dragged obscenely slowly since he woke up almost a week earlier in the French army hospital.
‘There is legislation which clearly makes it an offence to offer or expose for sale any item which can be construed as obscene,’ the police spokeswoman said.
He's obscenely rich/fat/cruel.
This carbon loophole has allowed pollution giants like Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Coal, and Massey Energy to ravage the planet, sicken our children, and rake in obscene profits for decades. Wonk Room » Byron Dorgan Tells His Flood-Ravaged State That A Repowered America Is ‘Not Going To Happen’
Three spammers were indicted in Pheonix last week for sending obscene spam in violation of US anti-spam regulations.
Instead, it wants to delve into the mindset of someone who earns obscene amounts of money for having a superlative skill, and how such a superman complex can corrupt even the most hardworking, dedicated individual.
Sure, the lyrics are angry, bitter, raving, mad, obscene, and a 1000 other adjectives, but they don't change my opinion.
Bradford made an obscene gesture .
His pay is obscene when you consider our country is in so much debt and hundreds of thousands are to set lose jobs. The Sun
• Refrained from violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behaviour. Top stories from Times Online
Recently she has been the target of a series of obscene phone calls.
As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling. The Sun
They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories.
Never tell stories that are not decent , ie that are obscene.
As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling. The Sun
She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers.
In light of its vast market power, Wal-Mart has infuriated the media with its long-standing refusal to stock obscene CDs and racy magazines.
All this at a time when the whole of Britain is in an uproar over obscene council tax rises and in a turmoil over pensions crises!
Two months later the splash headline in the Mirror was ‘Married cricket legend harasses a mum for sex with obscene phone calls’.
The mag was transplanted to London, where Neville and his cohorts became the defendants in the longest obscenity trial in English legal historyafter a sexually explicit issue aroused the ire of the Obscene Publications Squad. Murphy & Miller team for The Hippie Hippie Shake | Obsessed With Film
More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition.
Both mother and father died, and patient was in several hospitals after 36, obscene, denudative, onanist. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Sunlight poured in through Palladian windows, illuminating the room obscenely. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
Sean Pierce of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was charged with violating a law banning the public display of obscene material.
There have been a number of cases where the courts have refused to enforce copyright as the works in question were considered libellous, immoral, obscene, scandalous or irreligious.
I felt the need of posh nosh today so I fired up the little blue Ford and motored down to Taunton, intent on spending an obscene amount of my weekly housekeeping on goodies from Marks & Spencer.
Especially Hasbro toys, which are mass produced in obscene numbers. clueless schmo Okay, sometimes comics collections are worth something | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Acceptable clothing, however, does not include ornately woven sandals, leopard patterns of any sort, and obscene souvenir T-shirts from vacations past.
It also facilitates adults with a sexual interest in children to view obscene material and trade it.
Even someone remarking in polite company about somebody who ‘had one of the longest beards I've ever seen’ is given a suggestive pause after longest, eliciting obscene cachinnations from the groundlings.
As one of them turned away Carrington heard him mutter something, undoubtedly obscene.
I hope this can be provided in restrained language to the exclusion of your usual repertoire of obscene anatomical absurdities. on March 16, 2009 at 1: 24 pm | Reply pchawkeye “Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Every track is just a rant delivered over a monotonous beat and the limited vocabulary would be laughable were it not so obscene.
Pilots can take the craft within inches of rock walls at obscene speeds. Times, Sunday Times
Why the UN acquiesces in this obscene farrago is an exercise best left to the student. The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
Especially Hasbro toys, which are mass produced in obscene numbers. clueless schmo Okay, sometimes comics collections are worth something | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Can't you see how obscene it is to get him dressed up and wheel him around like a big rag doll?
McQueen has had notoriously bad relationships with his bosses - he used to chalk obscene messages onto the linings of suits he was tailoring in Savile Row.
A civilization which values -- and indeed consistently rewards -- aggression and reckless self-seeking rather than team work, ethical conduct, conciliation and compassion will end up despoiling the earth for short term profit, going to war for oil and economic dominance, creating an obscenely rich 1 percent at the expense of an increasingly impoverished 99 percent -- and, perhaps worst of all, it will produce unprecedented levels of human misery and spiritual unfulfillment. Richard Schiffman: Nice Guys Finish Last -- Or Do They?
But let us get back to the money because, although considered obscene by many, to me it is anything but. Times, Sunday Times
For now, though, the biggest beefs come from Hispanic groups and some Native Americans who complain that their people go unrepresented, and some affiliates — which didn't seem to mind the obscenely gruesome Holocaust pictures or the scene where a machine gun blows off a soldier's head — had a problem with the four uses of cusswords, one of which is alluded to in the anagrammatic title of episode five, "FUBAR. War and Remembrance
As had been argued by bookstores and their advocates along with the AAP and ACLU and others, Judge Sarah Evans Barker said the law was too broad and could be applied to unquestionably lawful, nonobscene, nonpornographic materials being sold to adults..... A Blow Against Censorship
A ghastly terrible obscene waste of human life.
I think a lot of things are more obscene than the average porn film.
Proposals are being mooted on two fronts: one could establish a new version of the Internet Watch Foundation IWF – the organisation which presently scours the net for illegal images of children, obscene adult content and "non-photographic child sexual abuse hosted in the UK" – to deal with illicit filesharing; the other would put Google and the government on a collision course. Illegal filesharing: web blocking measures in the dock
Do women use obscene language more than men do? Exploring language (6th edn)
A broad rhetorical commitment to this ideal coexisted with stringent restrictions on speech deemed radical or obscene.
The first half ended with the skit entitled I didn't do it, in which Joseph plays a schoolboy arrested by the police for obscene language while working in the school garden with hoes, forks and agricultural tools.
In the United States, an obscene alliance of corporate supremacists, desperate labor unions, certain ethnocentric Latino activist organizations and a majority of our elected officials in Washington works diligently to keep our borders open, wages suppressed and the American people all but helpless to resist the crushing financial and economic burden created by the millions of illegal aliens who crash our borders each year. advertisement Think Progress » In Any Language, Sen. Coburn’s Amendment Should Make You Sick
I have a designated driver for the night and the plans are to receive a lot of loot, get obscenely drunk, and pass out.
That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions.
It is a particularly obscene excuse when you consider the huge amounts of money spent every year on increasingly bloated budgets for ministerial and departmental media advisers.
The profits Microsoft has reaped from the Windows operating system are obscene. Flickr Users Consider Their Potential Microsoft Overlords - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
[5143] Another terms it the companion of all filthy delights and enticements, and 'tis not easily told what inconveniences come by it, what scurrile talk, obscene actions, and many times such monstrous gestures, such lascivious motions, such wanton tunes, meretricious kisses, homely embracings. Anatomy of Melancholy
Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America.
They believed he had been working in collaboration with Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody, the operational head of the Obscene Publications Squad. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
In a presentation made on the subject of regulating SOBs to the Texas City Attorneys Association meeting in 2006, attorneys William M. McKamie and Bradford E. Bullock of San Antonio pointed out that "generally a city may not use a zoning ordinance to effectively preclude adult businesses from locating within the city" and "[c] ase law has established that nonobscene adult entertainment is a protected First Amendment activity for which local governments must make sites reasonably available. PegasusNews.com stories
They said they found that while officers applied the law correctly in some cases, the majority involved profanities and other legal, nonobscene speech. CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
To paint this man as a saintly, pious ‘spiritual leader’ is obscene.
They have cut the obscene passages from the film to show it on television.
After bolting from a highway cop to give the two bored drivers something exciting to do in a lonely, desolate stretch of America, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) calmly whips his obscenely red convertible into a standstill to allow the custodian of justice ownership of the moment. Top 10 Gary Busey Performances » Scene-Stealers
For their troubles, Besant and Bradlaugh stood in the dock accused of circulating obscene material calculated to deprave public morals and faced the likelihood of a lengthy stretch in jail. Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
You didn't spend an obscene amount on the catering just to have it grow cold as one of your guests blathers on.
It is the voyeur in the audience who is the reason for offensive and obscene scenes in films.
To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene, inhuman monster, an outcast from civilized society.
You shouldn't write such obscene things to humour their dirty interests.
The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’
Lord Horror was the last novel to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts as likely to corrupt and deprave those who read it (the decision was finally overturned on appeal). Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
To go into someone's house and be obscene is unforgivable.
With no discussion, he glossed the legal meaning of obscene as ‘[t] ending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts’.
When pushed, many politicians will admit that such sums are obscene and that the system is unsustainable. Times, Sunday Times
The amount of alcohol that was lined up for the housemates was obscene.
There are also a few scenes of former obscene phone callers being interviewed about their experiences and why they stopped making calls; in one of these bits, the only word that gets bleeped out is ‘snot’.
I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
That means the rich don't get obscenely wealthy and the poor have a fair chance of good health, reasonable housing and a decent education.
When staff became concerned by his erratic behaviour and obscene language they called police.
He continued to use obscene language and also to make threats.
He had been driving around slowly, shouting abuse and making obscene gestures at police officers.
Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene. Archive 2009-01-01
To enact social transgression and a kind of hyperrealism, obscene language fetishizes certain words related to sex; the obscene word substitutes for the body part in question but, in the process, acquires the status of a fetish.
this man is obscenely rich
If people think it's obscene it's their dirty minds.
Many moons ago, when deployed to Kuwait as a young shavetail butterbar, we didn't have the obscene amenities that are de rigueur on even the most spartan FOB today. it took about a month before we had a shower -- which was little more than a shower head beneath a tank of water, the purpose of which was not to get you clean, but to get the funk off of your body. From My Position... On the way!
There are, according to the American Defense Secretary himself, worse, much worse obscene cruelties, to be revealed.
A salary of 13.8 million is ludicrous, obscene and offensive in equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
Every day, he says, children would hurl obscene and offensive abuse at teachers.
The objective in buying an obscene amount of chickens is to sell their eggs in town. Archive 2009-02-01
During setting forth the concept of obscene article, this paper holds the view that obscenity is the harm to the sexual morality and sexual sense of shyness of social normal general people.
A paunch could be an obscene thing to many, but never mind that a number of policemen have it in the city.
They have discovered just what obscene amounts some bankers paid themselves. Times, Sunday Times
They are curious why the body and its exudations are denied to them as a map, why if men write about the body they are extolled, why when women write sex they are accused of being obscene.
Lots of footballers go, and some of the rooms are palatial, but others are teeny-weeny; I think it's obscenely overpriced for what it is.
a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians. Modern India
A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
That matters in a world where the obscene and the nonobscene do not come tied neatly into separate, easily distinguishable, packages. The Volokh Conspiracy » COPA and obscenity law:
More than half of all the antibiotics used in this country are used in the farms and in the poultry sheds and all the rest of it, now that's obscene for a start.
Thereafter, colonial censors turned their attention more closely to stamping out obscene literature.
He likes gross, disgusting, and obscene killings.
These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates.
Peter Righton has been summonsed to appear in court next month to face allegations concerning obscene material.
The sepulchral lamps speak nothing less than sepulture, and in their literal draughts prove often obscene and antick pieces. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
At that moment, they noticed I was watching them and greeted me with a tirade of foul language and obscene gestures.
What is unacceptable is to see bank officers continuing to rake in obscene salaries after mismanaging the banks for a decade, the financial elite manipulating the corporate and bankruptcy laws to free themselves of debt while maintaining their extravagant lifestyles, and the clueless politicians wasting their time on trivial matters while the rest of us slowly bleed to death. Iris Erlingsdottir: Iceland Is Simmering

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