OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20022

obscene

/əbˈsiːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
obsceno
Offensive to standards of decency or morality.
The chapter closes with some thoughts on the obscene consumer from both a postmodern, and especially a modern, perspective. From the latter point of view, the obscene consumer is o…
What is obscene today may not be so tomorrow or what is obscene at one place may not be obscene at another place.
procaz
Lewd or lustful.
All masturbation is obscene, for [Roger] Scruton, also because it "involves a concentration on the body and its curious pleasures" [...].
Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.