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Recent Examples of indecency One of the teachers has been charged with indecency with a child, while the other was charged for online solicitation, the DA said. Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024 Standish is shocked by Lamb’s indecency — which is saying something about the level of that indecency — but the gambit works. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024 Goode will serve the two sentences for indecency with a child concurrently, equating to a term of 40 years in prison. Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024 There were episodes on figuring out if your child is a budding serial killer, as well as indecency and obscenity in music featuring Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Plasmatics’ Wendy O Williams, and Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for indecency 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecency
Noun
  • Whatever happened to elegant, elevated and epic language in lieu of vulgarities that flourish in the sewers and gutters of morality?
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Policy proposals aside, there's been name-calling, vulgarity, and plain old meanness.
    Jon LaPook, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • These laws could also face an uphill battle in the courts, including the Supreme Court, which have shot down certain obscenity laws as unconstitutional.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • His speech was larded with obscenity and boastfulness.
    Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The praise is rarely as loud as the disrespect when Ange gets it right.
    Ahmed Walid, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Basically that poor enforcement had bred serious disrespect for the law, or at least a misunderstanding of it.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Indecency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecency. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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