Definition of Obscene

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Obscene

Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.

Foul; fifthy; disgusting.

Inauspicious; ill-omened.

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Obscene Quotations

Women should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho Marx

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
Jock Sturges

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
Howard Stern

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Henry Ellis

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Obscene Translations

obscene in Dutch is obsceen, schuin, schunnig
obscene in Italian is osceno
obscene in Spanish is obsceno

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