What's the difference between luscious and obscene?

Luscious


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
  • (a.) Cloying; fulsome.
  • (a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anyway, pink was not then the absolute obsession with little girls that it has since become, and I had been hoping for the luscious, bleeding colours of Disney's Technicolor.
  • (2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (3) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
  • (4) I dreamed that a baby burst out of my abdomen last night, an image utterly remote from most luscious baby marketing.
  • (5) Project Spark looks like an intriguing game builder allowing users to create luscious RPG worlds with a simple Kinect interface.
  • (6) Young had obviously reached a bad stage in his life, but the backing by the London symphony orchestra makes it luscious.
  • (7) The winning recipe: Zesty lemon and almond and vanilla petits fours I've just tried out a new luscious petit-four recipe, based on a Moroccan idea I saw, which has to be the epitome of zesty.
  • (8) Looking back now that game still has the feel of a luscious one-off.
  • (9) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
  • (10) People are waiting in line with containers and barrels to fill up to get to where they want to go.” Ang said from Havannah he could see that the islands of Moso and Lelepa, “normally a luscious, rolling green, have been stripped bare” by the cyclone.
  • (11) And, I’m always the conservative one so I may be understating that number.” Hardy, 56, who has been selling houses for 20 years, pauses to point out the window as she drives past acre after acre of luscious hedgerows grown 20ft high to shield the wealthy from prying eyes.
  • (12) Let’s not forget we are talking about a land that the ancient Greeks could not believe when they landed: such a paradise of luscious food, but because of the massive inequality of rich and poor, there were times when many people had very little to eat.
  • (13) I'm in a huge, ancient cast iron bath with crackled cream enamel, and I've decided to float on my back in the green water, piling the huge mounds of luscious fleshy seaweed all over me.
  • (14) Joyce DiDonato, the US mezzo-soprano who performs the part for the last time in the run tonight, would have achieved wonderful reviews for her voice alone: luscious and clear, with a freshness that filled the theatre.
  • (15) In the prop store, I see the Pontipines' tiny picnic table, cloth laid out with drawer-knob cakes and luscious trifles made out of sherry glasses filled with glass beads.
  • (16) The winning recipe: braised ox cheek ragu I live in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain and the weather has been awful this winter, so I wanted to make something heart-warming, rich and luscious.
  • (17) For a weekend last September, he gave over his luscious farm in the Cotswolds to a festival celebrating his two great loves: food and music.
  • (18) The superbly lifelike constellation of almost too luscious-looking grapes, bruised and scarred apples, a pomegranate burst open to reveal the blood-red seeds within, and other ripe, even over-ripe, fancies that balance dangerously on the edge of the table is just one of many fruit baskets that appear in Caravaggio’s art.
  • (19) The dish is silky and luscious with a wonderful mouth-feel; the textures in the stuffing balance perfectly.
  • (20) Doña Yoli, a humble operation, has been doling out luscious red pozole for decades.

Obscene


Definition:

  • (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
  • (a/) Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
  • (a/) Inauspicious; ill-omened.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
  • (3) A catalogue of errors allowed the broadcast on Radio 2 of a series of obscene messages the pair had left on the actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.
  • (4) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
  • (5) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
  • (6) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
  • (7) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
  • (8) Reuters's source said police told Ai: "You criticised the government, so we are going to let all society know that you're an obscene person, you evaded taxes, you have two wives, we want to shame you.
  • (9) Ing concedes she is hardly a fan of a man she accuses of a "blatant and obscene lack of ethics", but rejects the accusation that the film is anti-Thaksin propaganda: her use of red, for instance, was decided long before it became associated with his redshirts .
  • (10) The guidelines say that prosecutions should not be brought under obscenity laws but on the basis of the menace and humiliation intended, and in the most serious cases, where intimate images are used to coerce victims into further sexual activity, under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
  • (11) Several other places were vetoed on account of various scandals and disputes, and I have also excluded luxurious and obscenely priced retreats.
  • (12) One Barking and Dagenham resident – a British citizen with Indian Caribbean heritage – described the BNP leaflet campaign as "obscene".
  • (13) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
  • (14) 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".
  • (15) The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has buried that obscene version of history by convicting Bagosora of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes – and, in the process, establishing that what happened in Rwanda in 1994 was neither accidental nor spontaneous.
  • (16) He included the text of an email sent to the National Gallery of Victoria’s curatorial team on 12 September saying any work using the pieces could not “contain any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements”.
  • (17) Can you still read and do the things you want?’ And he said that since he’d had his child, he had more time because it made him stronger, more concentrated, more serious.’” We discuss how the word “feminism” was considered an obscenity during their trial.
  • (18) Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband, showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was obscene and demeaning to women.
  • (19) The district judge Elizabeth Roscoe found Nunn guilty of sending indecent, obscene or menacing messages following a trial at City of London magistrates court this month, and jailed him on Monday.
  • (20) • Outrages by Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf follows Vagina with an examination of the 1857 Obscene Publications Act – the first law to ban the sale of obscene materials.