The phrase "act of indecency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to describe behavior that is considered morally or socially unacceptable.
Example: "The defendant was charged with an act of indecency in public, which violated local laws."
Alternatives: "indecent act" or "lewd behavior".
Two were picked up in Griffith, NSW, including a 45-year-old man who was charged with six counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10, four counts of indecent assault, sexual intercourse with a child aged between 10-14, actravated act of indecency, and common assault.
An "act of indecency" will be more frankly referred to as a "sexual act," while the offense of "indecent assault" will be redefined as "sexual touching".
An "act of indecency" will be more frankly referred to as a "sexual act", while the offence of "indecent assault" will be redefined as "sexual touching".
Jackson Mthembu, the party's national spokesman, said: "We call upon all South Africans to support this noble course and to demonstrate rejection to this act of indecency, vulgar and disrespect of the constitution of our country and the values it stands for.
The Tanzania Football Federation has banned international defender Juma Said for two years for engaging in an "act of indecency".
"They don't see [rape] as a crime but as an act of indecency, instead".
That's an ill-advised euphemism for aggressive acts of indecency against victims aged between seven and 19.
"When you're in the combat theater dealing with enemy combatants who don't abide by the law of war, who do acts of indecency, soldiers become stressed, they become fearful," Campbell said.
He has turned these acts of indecency into a kind of origami over the years, sometimes prompting puzzled audience members to ask each other, "What's in his hand?" Seeing the Jesus Lizard live makes almost any other band seem like a bunch of layabouts by comparison.
In 2004 in England, a top gymnastics coach named Joseph Mills was sentenced to seven years in prison after he admitted to four acts of "indecency" with girls ranging in age from eight to 14 and was described by a judge of being guilty of a "disgraceful" abuse of his position.
Defining the difference between simulated buggery, of the kind seen on stage at the National Theatre, which staged Romans in Britain in December 1980, and an act of gross indecency in real life, he said: "Pretending to commit an act of buggery is not an act of gross indecency merely because buggery itself is an act of gross indecency.
