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indecency 音標拼音: [ɪnd'isənsi] n. 無禮,不體面,猥褻 無禮,不體面,猥褻 indecency n 1: the quality of being indecent [ ant: { decency}] 2: an indecent or improper act [ synonym: { indecency}, { impropriety}] Indecency \ In* de" cen* cy\, n.; pl. { Indecencies}. [ L. indecentia unseemliness: cf. F. ind[' e] cence.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. [ 1913 Webster] They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. -- Beattie. Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See { Indecorum}. [ 1913 Webster] 77 Moby Thesaurus words for " indecency": Babbittry, andromania, aphrodisia, bad taste, biological urge, bodily appetite, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, carnal desire, concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, high camp, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infantile sexuality, itch, kitsch, lasciviousness, libidinousness, low camp, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, nymphomania, passion, philistinism, polymorphous perversity, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prurience, pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, soiledness, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unvirtuousness, venereal appetite, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarnessINDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R. 91. 2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3216. 3. The following are examples of indecency: the exposure by a man of his naked person on a balcony, to public view, or bathing in public; 2 Campb. 89; or the exhibition of bawdy pictures. 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 42; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 91. This indecency is punishable by indictment. Vide 1 Sid. 168; S. C. 1 Keb. 620; 2 Yerg. R. 482, 589; 1 Mass. Rep. 8; 2 Chan. Cas. 110; 1 Russ. Cr. 302; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 5, s. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 65, n.; 1 East, P. C. c. 1, s. 1; Burn' s Just. Lewdness.
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