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indecent

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in⋅de⋅cent

  [in-dee-suhnt]
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–adjective
1. offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar: indecent jokes; indecent language; indecent behavior.
2. not decent; unbecoming or unseemly: indecent haste.
Origin:
1555–65; < L indecent- (s. of indecēns) unseemly. See in- 3 , decent

Related forms:
in⋅de⋅cent⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. distasteful, immodest, indecorous, indelicate; coarse, outrageous, rude, gross; obscene, filthy, lewd, licentious. See improper. 2. inappropriate.

Antonyms:
2. appropriate; becoming.
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in·de·cent   (ĭn-dē'sənt)   
adj.  

  1. Offensive to good taste; unseemly.

  2. Offensive to public moral values; immodest. See Synonyms at improper.

in·de'cent·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

indecent 
1563, "unbecoming, in bad taste," from L. indecentem, from in- "not" + decentem (see decent). Sense of "offending against propriety" is from 1613. Indecent assault (1861) originally covered sexual assaults other than rape or intended rape, but by 1934 it was being used as a euphemism for "rape."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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