obscene

əbˈsiːn

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#1·3h ago

Offensive to standards of decency or morality.

Neither do wee pleaſe them with their owne crimes, or obſcæne ſpectacles: whereas they celebrate both the guilt that there gods incurred who were men, and the fayned pleaſures of ſuch of them as were flat deuills.

Origin: From (modern ), and from its , obscaenus. The further etymology is , but may be from ob- + caenum (possibly ultimately from ) or scaevus (from ). If from caenum, the unexpected extra -s- may be from a variant form of the original PIE root; a similar -s- exists in ex-. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·3h ago

Lewd or lustful.

Shall I recount his intemperance, voluptuouſneſs, and obſcæne manner of living? or his impious, doubtful or wicked end? no, let them be buried with his aſhes.

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#3·3h ago

Disgusting or repulsive.

What is obscene today may not be so tomorrow or what is obscene at one place may not be obscene at another place.

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