obscenity
noun/əbˈsenəti/
/əbˈsenəti/
(plural obscenities)
- [uncountable] obscene language or behaviour
- The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity.
- the laws on obscenity
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of obscenity- stream
- string
- mutter
- scream
- shout
- …
- charge
- laws
- trial
- …
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- [countable, usually plural] an obscene word or act
- She screamed a string of obscenities at the judge.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of obscenity- stream
- string
- mutter
- scream
- shout
- …
- charge
- laws
- trial
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French obscénité or Latin obscaenitas, from obscaenus ‘ill-omened or abominable’.
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