Definitions for indecency

indecency in·de·cen·cy

Spelling: [in-dee-suh n-see]
IPA: /ɪnˈdi sən si/

Indecency is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in indecency (ccdeeinny).

Definitions for indecency

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being indecent.
  2. impropriety or immodesty.
  3. obscenity or indelicacy.
  4. an indecent act, remark, etc.

Origin of indecency

From the Latin word indecentia, dating back to 1580-90. See indecent, -ency

Examples for indecency

Somehow I had a sense that she was conscious of the indecency of this.

indecency in broadcasting became a major concern, and CBS was fined over half a million dollars.

It is not indecency; it is simply an animal absence of modesty.

Not just by an indecent, illegal image, but by indecency and illegality itself.

Describing this as a “performance” borders on indecency, of course.

No matter where it may be drawn, decency is close to it on one side and indecency on the other.

Here, indecency reigns, with residents of these rival neighborhoods tripping over one another to broadcast their racism.

Indeed the Chinese religions are said to be hostile to indecency.

Our shock is not from indecency, but from the absence of self-possession, the ultimate bourgeois possession.

Out of this has come the notion of what is obscene, as the extreme of indecency and impropriety.

Word Value for indecency
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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