Obscene Synonyms and Antonyms

ŏb-sēn, əb-
Foul
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unwholesome
  2. outrageous
  3. preposterous
  4. filthy
  5. ridiculous
  6. detestable
  7. shocking
  8. unconscionable
  9. unclean
  10. abhorrent
  11. unreasonable
  12. repugnant
  13. repulsive
Antonyms:
  1. decent
  2. moral
  3. pure
  4. clean
  5. innocent
  6. upright
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. bawdry
  2. coprolalia
  3. coprology
  4. pornography
  5. scatology
  6. vulgarism
  7. vulgarity

Words Related to Obscene

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Obscene Sentence Examples

  • They leered, and one made an obscene gesture.

  • Here he began to write plays and obscene novels.

  • The discussion of this measure occupied most of the session of 1895; the bill was amended by the Centre so as to make it even more strongly a measure for the defence of religion; and clauses were introduced to defend public morality, by forbidding the public exhibition of pictures or statues, or the sale of writings, which, without being actually obscene, might rudely offend the feeling of modesty.

  • The Genevan town councils were quite ready to re-enact all the old police regulations common in that age in regard to excessive display, dancing, obscene songs, &c. It was arranged too that town government should listen to the " Consistory," made up of the " Elders," but the Small Council was to choose the members of the Consistory, two of whom should belong to the Small Council, four to the Council of Sixty, and six to the Council of Two Hundred.

  • The Commons had ordered to be printed, among other papers, a report of the inspectors of prisons on Newgate, which stated that an obscene book, published by Stockdale, was given to the prisoners to read.

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