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adjective
Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
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To harden them for testosterone-crazed male audiences, Fowley subjected the girls to obscene invective bordering on abuse.
They range from amusing ("a centaur") to nonsensical ("YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS") to obscene or scatological ("genital piercings") to nearly unforgivable (and uncitable).
But it is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech.
"Unmournable Bodies," by Teju Cole: "It is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech".
He may put his facts to obscene purposes; but who are we to disregard the work of someone who knows so much?
These words -- contempt, money, crazy, die, useless -- and their iterations progress from conventional to obscene, like a voice rising in an abusive rant.
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It doesn't have to be obscene to get taken down — anything that looks like spam or not in the spirit of the site can be removed.
This would, in turn, allow app manufacturers to create obscene apps to pervert our minds.
Similarly, the phrase "grass mud horse" – cǎo ní mǎ – sounds almost identical to an obscene reference to someone's mother.
Just to be clear, I am not referring to the obscene, explicit images that are demeaning to women.
And whenever she would appear on the screen, Bill would begin to suck his thumb to an obscene amount.
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