The word "indecency" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe anything that violates accepted standards of modesty or decency. For example: "The indecency of his behavior shocked everyone in the room."
But thanks to the current political clout of social conservatives, TV and radio firms are under more attack than ever for allegedly corrupting America's youth.Congress is threatening to increase sharply fines for airing indecent material, and some politicians want to regulate cable and satellite TV for indecency for the first time.
Greg's position is undermined by an indecency charge; he also becomes aware through the confessional of a girl's abuse by her father.
Ringland pleaded guilty to 20 charges relating to internet abuse, two of indecency with a child, four of hacking, four of blackmail, and 10 of making indecent photographs of a child.
A FOUR-YEAR battle ended yesterday, when Singapore's highest court upheld the constitutionality of Section 377(a) of the country's penal code, which renders any man convicted of committing "or abet[ting] the commission of...any act of gross indecency" with another man liable to two years in prison.
Instead, a sense of "indecency"—as one Budapest economist put it—hangs over any discussion of politicians' lives before 1989.
Only the FCC's zealous crusade against indecency over the public airwaves has appeared to work for Mr Powell, as it has taken on offenders from radio-host Howard Stern to Bono and Janet Jackson's errant breast (so disturbing to some viewers of last year's Super Bowl).Mr Powell, whose second (and most probably final) five-year term expires in 2007, amiably waves away these trifling setbacks.
Smut.Unlike those fiddly telecoms and media rules, the FCC's assault on indecency has yielded gratifyingly quick results.
THEIR crimes were "gross indecency" and "unnatural acts".
What Jamaican law calls "the abominable crime of buggery" is punishable with up to ten years of hard labour; "gross indecency" merits up to two years.
Destroying the books went against "everything a library is supposed to stand for".While this controversy raged, Singapore's highest court heard a constitutional challenge to Section 377a of the penal code, which criminalises homosexual acts (defined as "any act of gross indecency with another male person").
It also features a stunning central performance from Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the man who cracked Nazi codes at Bletchley Park in Britain, saving millions of lives, but who was later convicted of gross indecency for which he has since been officially pardoned.
