How to Use obscene in a Sentence

obscene

adjective

• He spends an obscene amount of money on clothes.
• He made an obscene gesture at the driver who cut him off.
• He was accused of making obscene phone calls.
• The company's executives earn obscene salaries.
• The film, which features an all-Asian cast, does not hold back on the vulgar and obscene.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• The obscene sign is allowed and they were granted a permit.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The department will be in charge of ruling whether books are obscene under the law.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The man is being charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The law forbids the sending of obscene materials through the mail.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• But what these parents had to suffer in the process, on top of what had already occurred, was obscene.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
• The victim honked his horn at the man, who responded with an obscene hand gesture.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• But with all of that new traffic came extra hate speech and obscene content.
  — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
• And third, because of an obscene amount of time pressure to perform quickly.
  — Gianluca Russo, refinery29.com, 12 July 2022
• The oval field was apple-green; in a dry, hundred-and-four-degree heat, the color seemed almost obscene.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Her remarks weren’t obscene — at least, no more than anyone else’s.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• There is never a great time to spend obscene amounts of money fixing problems years in the making.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• But the book was still deemed obscene, and Dennett was charged with violating the Comstock Act.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• But medicine is full of terms that sound funny or disgusting or obscene.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• These tasty morsels are glazed with a sticky sweet cola- and soy sauce-mixture that packs a borderline obscene amount of garlic (six whole cloves!).
  — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 18 Jan. 2023
• Terry Lee Yerby is charged with at least 10 counts of possession of obscene matter of a child under the age of 17.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some of them are very affectionate; some of them are obscene or designed to be shocking.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• But a private boat was docked in its space, and the boat’s owners responded to requests to move with obscene gestures, curse words and taunting, the chief said.
  — Alta Spells, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• Deadpool will still scream, curse, make obscene gestures, and do whatever else the crude superhero is known to do.
  — Vulture, 7 June 2022
• Bradatan tells us about the complexities and hypocrisies of each and how both, despite years of planning, botched their suicides in gory, if not obscene, ways.
  — Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• Drag shows, which tend to be no more lewd than the average pop-music video, are not inherently obscene.
  — Cassidy George, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
• The changes also abolished a provision prohibiting the use of obscene language on signs.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• The next video shot is of Crowder, wearing dark sunglasses, answering a question about the obscene chant, wearing the shirt and advancing to the next round.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• They were found guilty of distributing obscene materials through the mail and forced to shut down the publication.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Schools would not be allowed to have any materials deemed obscene or vulgar, nor would they be allowed to have drag shows.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2023
• The left is wary of them for having been born into an obscene level of privilege; the right resents them for not having the common sense to shut up and enjoy it.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024