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obscene

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7 lettersPronunciation /əbˈsiːn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bceenosStarts with OEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

Word origin

From Middle French obscene (modern French obscène (“indecent, obscene”)), and from its etymon Latin obscēnus, obscaenus (“inauspicious; ominous; disgusting, filthy; offensive, repulsive; indecent, lewd, obscene”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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