(n.) The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
(n.) That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(2) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(3) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(4) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
(5) Of those convicted of indecent assault on persons under 16 and of gross indecency with children, 48% had a previous history of psychiatric disorder.
(6) In Romania in October a man was subsequently charged with producing and distributing indecent images of children and blackmail.
(7) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
(8) Allen admitted three sexual assaults, one assault by penetration and one charge of distributing indecent photographs.
(9) He also faced numerous charges relating to his time working as a “spiritual healer” – including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault – and had been bailed for allegedly being an accessory to the killing of his former wife.
(10) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(11) Three fellow activists from the group, Femen , are on trial for public indecency after demonstrating topless in front of Tunisia's Palace of Justice.
(12) George, 39, hung her head as she admitted seven sexual assaults and six counts of distributing and making indecent pictures of children.
(13) They have been charged with public indecency and being a threat to public order.
(14) It has been a great privilege to have been involved in this sale and we are immensely pleased that all the people who bid for this unique item and indeed the wider public have recognised Turing’s importance and place in history.” Turing, whose work cracking the German codes was vital to the British war effort, was convicted in 1952 of gross indecency with a 19-year-old man.
(15) He was prosecuted under section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003, which prohibits sending "by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".
(16) On Wednesday, Sboui appeared before an investigating judge in Kairouan who is considering the charges; they include public indecency, desecrating a cemetery and belonging to a band of malefactors seeking to damage public property.
(17) In the resulting viral video , “Gertrude” said what worried her most about the Freedom party’s politics was that they brought out “the basest in people – not the decent, but the indecent” – adding “and it’s not the first time something like this has happened”.
(18) The X Factor judge Louis Walsh is threatening libel action against the Sun after being told by Irish police that he was no longer under investigation for an alleged indecent assault.
(19) Because the legal interpretation of terms like “debauchery” or “public indecency” is so broad, sentences are often maximised by judges who “stack” similarly-worded offences.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.
Salaciousness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(2) "There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better.
(3) Documents cite various occasions where players and coaches cursed or flipped each other the bird, as well as “salacious” Super Bowl concerts by Michael Jackson and Prince.
(4) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
(5) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
(6) North Korea has attacked the South's "reptile media" for running salacious reports alleging Kim Jong-un ordered nine performers to be executed to protect his wife's reputation.
(7) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(8) "They want to be able to show that which is salacious, that which is sensational… they want to give a sense of the drama of the courtroom."
(9) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
(10) Much attention was focused on the salacious and graphic details accompanying the independent counsel's findings, which Mr Clinton's advisers believe will be decisive in setting the national mood in which the report is discussed.
(11) Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, "worried when the author's sourcing was overtaken by its opposite: gossip, some of it salacious".
(12) The purpose of the act was to restrict reporting salacious deatails in divorces.
(13) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
(14) Last year 40 female political journalists signed a petition complaining of persistent harassment by senior male politicians, such as comments complaining they weren’t showing enough cleavage, text messages asking them out, salacious comments, harassment and being asked after holidays: “Are you tanned all over?” Things have got so bad that a women’s group this week opened a free phone line providing legal advice for women who are victims of harassment by male politicians.
(15) They also accuse the salacious romance, itself the subject of controversy after stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux alleged Kechiche bullied them on set , of veering into child porn territory.
(16) Some are overtly salacious; others, like 2004’s Precious Boys, sad and soulful.
(17) Over the past decade, the agency has been involved in fewer salacious incidents and has moved away from the "good ol' boy" image that dogged it in the past, according to the New York Times.
(18) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
(19) The genre has become increasingly salacious in the intervening years, as women have revealed ever more intimate details of couplings to papers so grateful for their indiscretions that they shell out thousands of pounds for the privilege of publishing them.
(20) Another possibility, the newspaper admitted, was that Leone was not seen as authentically Indian and "no one minds a salacious Caucasian".