indecency
pronunciation
How to pronounce indecency in British English:
UK [ɪnˈdi:snsi]
How to pronounce indecency in American English:
US [ɪnˈdisənsi]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being indecent
- an indecent or improper act
Word Origin
- indecency (n.)
- 1580s, from Latin indecentia "unseemliness, impropriety," noun of quality from indecentem (see indecent).
Example
- 1. He was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after admitting a sexual relationship with a man .
- 2. Even so , a recent move to have turing formally pardoned for the crime of gross indecency failed .
- 3. Turing had been convicted of " gross indecency " with another man and forced to undergo hormone treatment .
- 4. Chances are he will stay away from villa certosa , his sardinian estate where the poolside parties have acquired a sheen of indecency .
- 5. In 1952 , turing was arrested for having a sexual relationship with another man , convicted for gross indecency and chemically castrated .