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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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Just at obscenity, the same place where the line is drawn with regard to sales for private viewing?
For this they were hauled up in a New York court on either obscenity or public decency charges.
Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception.
Knowing that the book is devoted to obscenity, the viewer strives to make these recalcitrant shapes congeal into something naughty.
The obscenity of surrendering state education to corporate benefactors reeks of Victorian attitudes to the poor.
Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey.

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