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indecent
[ in-dee-suhnt ]
adjective
- offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar:
indecent jokes; indecent language; indecent behavior.
Synonyms: licentious, lewd, filthy, obscene, gross, rude, outrageous, coarse, indelicate, indecorous, immodest, distasteful
- not decent; unbecoming or unseemly:
indecent haste.
Synonyms: inappropriate
Antonyms: becoming, appropriate
indecent
/ ɪnˈdiːsənt /
adjective
- offensive to standards of decency, esp in sexual matters
- unseemly or improper (esp in the phrase indecent haste )
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Derived Forms
- inˈdecently, adverb
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- in·decent·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
There is the smell here of an indecent rush for scapegoats, even before we know what really caused this crash.
The problem is that being a decent person in an indecent situation is not enough, even though it may also be all you can do.
There is something indecent in asking people to fake a feeling to make a living.
The Cheneys exhibit indecent haste in their attempt at rep rehab.
Mr Clifford, 70, denies 11 counts of indecent assault relating to seven alleged victims, aged from 14 to 20 between 1966 and 1984.
I've said from the very first, it's downright indecent for a girl to live alone on a farm—no chaperon, not even a woman servant.
"It would be a highly indecent spectacle, my dear," said the vicar with a chuckle.
It is said, perhaps untruly, that his remonstrance to the Prince against his remaining here has been ungentlemanlike and indecent.
A telegraph company must transmit a message unless it contains indecent language.
The person whose mind is satisfied by the parlour dullness of that nightly foolery only becomes animated when he is indecent.
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