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Recent Examples of indecency The spokesperson did not respond to an email from the Statesman about the new indecency bill. Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025 Molina, a gay hairdresser convicted of public indecency during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, has been sent to the political wing of a prison and put in the same cell as Valentin Arregui (a solid, if unremarkable Diego Luna), an intense and serious-minded Marxist revolutionary. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025 As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency. Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025 In a grimy torture complex of a Buenos Aires prison as military dictatorship rages in the outside world, Luis is locked up for public indecency, while Valentin is behind bars for his participation in a leftist revolutionary group trying to topple the government. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for indecency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecency
Noun
  • Lashing out from the White House, Mr. Trump used a vulgarity to accuse Mr. Xi and Mr. Lam of plotting to exploit the United States.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Those incidents range from keying swastikas to spray-painting other vulgarities.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And while producers could appeal the board’s obscenity rulings, most did not.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Skinner’s name was becoming a kind of obscenity in certain pockets of the terraces.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • April 21, 2025 Regardless of one’s position on the war in Ukraine, the president has shown a stunning disrespect for a world leader, an unprecedented bow to Russia’s leader, and a complete disregard for diplomacy.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The vice president accused Ukraine's leader of showing disrespect to the president and of insufficient gratitude to the U.S. for its help.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Indecency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecency. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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