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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obscene \obscene"\, a. l. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill
   looking, filthy, obscene: cf. f. obsc'ene.
   1913 webster
   1. offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting
      to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and
      decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene
      language; obscene pictures.
      1913 webster

            words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew
            obscene and uncleanly.                --i. watts.
      1913 webster

   2. foul; fifthy; disgusting.
      1913 webster

            a girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
                                                  --dryden
                                                  aeneid, vi.
                                                  417.
      1913 webster

   3. inauspicious; ill-omened. r. a latinism
      1913 webster

            at the cheerful light,
            the groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   syn: impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
        1913 webster -- obscene"ly, adv. --
        obscene"ness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
obscene"ly obscene"ness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
obscene
     adj 1: designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often
            becomes flagrantly obscene"- margaret mead
     2: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
        massacre at wounded knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
        "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
        recent novels" syn: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant,
         repulsive
     3: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
        whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture";
        "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" syn: lewd,
         raunchy, salacious
see also:
abhorrent detestable repugnant repulsive lewd raunchy 
salacious 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
172 moby thesaurus words for "obscene":
   cyprian, fescennine, paphian, rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable,
   abusive, amoral, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, atrocious, awful,
   barnyard, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
   blasphemous, blue, broad, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal,
   clitoromaniacal, coarse, comminatory, concupiscent, contemptible,
   contumelious, crass, crude, crusty, cursing, damnatory, debauched,
   degenerate, denunciatory, despicable, detestable, dirty,
   disgusting, dissolute, distasteful, dysphemistic, earthy,
   epithetic, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, evil,
   excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fetid,
   filthy, fleshly, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken,
   foul-tongued, foulmouthed, fulminatory, fulsome, gaudy, goatish,
   gross, gynecomaniacal, hateful, heinous, hideous, horny, horrible,
   hot, hysteromaniacal, ignoble, immodest, immoral, imprecatory,
   improper, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant,
   insufferable, intolerable, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous,
   lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loathsome,
   loose, loud, lubricious, lurid, lustful, maledictory, malodorous,
   mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating,
   nauseous, noisome, noxious, nymphomaniacal, objectionable,
   obnoxious, odious, off color, offensive, outrageous, paw,
   pornographic, priapic, profane, prurient, randy, rank, raunchy,
   raw, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting,
   ribald, rich, risque, rocky, rough, rude, ruttish, salacious,
   satyric, scabrous, scatologic, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous,
   sensual, sexual, sexy, shameful, shameless, shocking, sickening,
   smoking-room, smutty, stinking, suggestive, sultry, unchaste,
   unclean, unpalatable, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile,
   vituperative, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked





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