What's the difference between indecency and undecency?
Indecency
Definition:
(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.
Undecency
Definition:
(n.) Indecency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epimerization of the 2' position occurred on treatment of 2'-acetyltaxol derivatives with 1,5-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene, but treatment of 2'-(2,2,2-trichloroethyloxycarbonyl) taxol derivatives with DBU yielded the novel cyclization products 11 and 12 and, after deprotection at the 7 position, 13.
(2) To remove Cps-group, Abz-esters of Cps-peptides were treated with two molar equivalents of 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene in dimethylformamide followed by neutralization of the base with an excess of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole; the deblocked amino components were then used without isolation.
(3) Of several other phosphonates tested only undec-10-ene-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonic acid inhibited acid p-nitrophenyl phosphatase strongly, the polyphosphate (P20, I) had little effect.
(4) Treatment with 1,5-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-5-ene in N,N-dimethylformamide and removal of the blocking groups have 9-(5-deoxy-beta-D-erythro-pent-4-enofuranosyl)adenine (9).
(5) Treatment of 3 with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene also gave as the main product 6-Z, which was isolated crystalline from the reaction mixture.
(6) (1S*, 4R*, 8S*, 11R*)-3-Diphenylmethyl-11-methyl-3- azatricyclo[6.2.1.0(4,11)]undec-5-en-2-one, C24H25NO, Mr = 343.47, monoclinic, P2(1), a = 10.248 (3), b = 8.859 (2), c = 10.344 (2) A, beta = 99.816 (14) degrees, V = 925.4 (3) A3, Z = 2, D chi = 1.23 g cm-1 (163 K), lambda(Mo K alpha) = 0.7107 A, mu = 0.6927 cm-1, F(000) = 368, T = 163 K, R = 0.0423 for 2569 reflections.
(7) (1R,4S,8S,11R)-11-Methyl-3-[(R)-alpha-phenyl-ethyl]-3- azatricyclo[6.2.1.0(4.11)]undec-5-en-2-one, C19H23NO, Mr = 281.40, orthorhombic, P2(1)2(1)2(1), a = 9.534 (2), b = 11.055 (4), C = 14.372 (4) A, V = 1514.8 (8) A, Z = 4, Dx = 1.23 (163 K), Dm = 1.15 g cm-3 (295 K), lambda(Mo K alpha) = 0.71069 A, mu = 0.702 cm-1, F(000) = 608, T = 163 K, R = 0.0387 for 2310 reflections.
(8) This report demonstrates that, in low concentrations, the non-nucleophilic amidine 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene is a preferred alternative to the more commonly employed piperidine for the rapid and efficient cleavage of the N alpha-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl group in the continuous flow method of solid-phase peptide synthesis.
(9) The 4-O-methylthymidine required for oligonucleotide synthesis was prepared by treating the 4-(3-nitro-1,2,4-triazolo) derivative of 3',5'-bis-O-(methoxyacetyl)thymidine with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]-undec-7-ene (DBU) in methanol solution.
(10) At the recommended concentration of 2% 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene in dimethylformamide, racemization of resin-bound C-terminal S-trityl cysteine was substantially reduced compared with standard piperidine-mediated deprotection conditions.
(11) The sesquiterpenoid ketone, 1,4,4-trimethyltricyclo[5.4.0.0(3.5)]undec-7-en-9-one (1), was subjected to microbial transformation by six fungal strains: Aspergillus niger ATCC 9142, Aspergillus ochraceus DSM 824, Beauveria bassiana ATCC 7159, Cunninghamella echinulata ATCC 9244, Rhizopus arrhizus ATCC 11.145, and Absidia blakesleeana ATCC 10.148.
(12) 1-(2-O-Acetyl-3,5,6-tri-O-benzoyl-beta-D-glucofuranosyl)thymine (1) was converted into the 2,2'-anhydro derivative 4 by selective deacetylation, mesylation, and treatment with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene.
(13) Phosphonate analogues of 2-N-stearoyl- (I) and 2-N-(undec-10-enoyl)-sphingomyelins (II) have been synthesised.
(14) Carboxy-activated linear peptides 6(a-c) of general formula Sal-Xaa-Pro-ONp (Xaa = Phe: Gly; Aib) were synthesized and treated at room temperature with 1,8-diazabicyclo [5,4,0] undec-7-ene (DBU) in benzene solution.
(15) Michael type addition of DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5,4,0]undec-7-ene) phthalimide salt to 4,6-di-O-acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-aldehydo-D-erythro-trans-hex-2-enos e 2 and concomitant acetyl shift give an anomeric mixture of arabino and ribo isomers of 5,6-di-O-acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-3-phthalimido-D-hexofuranose 3 which after acetylation at the anomeric hydroxy group is separated to give 4 and 5.
(16) The double bond of the unsaturated undec-10-enoyl moiety of the phosphonate analogue (II) was oxidized, and the modified (II) was coupled to amino-Toyopearl HW-65 to give a sorbent containing 4 mumoles of ligand per milliliter of the swollen resin.
(17) Four main metabolites were formed from 1: 10(R)- and 10(S)-hydroxy-1,4,4-trimethyltricyclo-[5.4.0.0(3.5)]undec-7- en- 9-one (2 and 3, respectively), besides 4(R)- and 4(S)-(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-dimethyltricyclo[5.4.0.0(3.5)]undec -7-en-9-one (4 and 5, respectively).
(18) The structure of incarnal has been determined to be (1-hydroxy-2,10,10-trimethyl)-3-methylene- tricyclo[6.3.0.0(2.6)]undec-5,7-diene-4,9-dione by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods.
(19) Treatment with 1,5-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-5-ene and removal of the blocking groups produced the desired nucleosides.