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Indecency - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Indecency : (noun)
1: the quality of being indecent [ant: decency]
2: an indecent or improper act [syn: impropriety]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Indecency : \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Indecencies. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency,
modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
offense against delicacy.
They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie.
Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
See Indecorum.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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INDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R.
91.
2. The law, in general, will repressIndecency : as being contrary to
good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of
disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence. 3
Bouv. Inst. n. 3216.
3. The following are examples of indecency: the exposure by a man of
his naked person on a balcony, to public view, or bathing in public; 2
Campb. 89; or the exhibition of bawdy pictures. 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 42; 2 Serg.
& Rawle, 91. This indecency is punishable by indictment. Vide 1 Sid. 168; S.
C. 1 Keb. 620; 2 Yerg. R. 482, 589; 1 Mass. Rep. 8; 2 Chan. Cas. 110; 1
Russ. Cr. 302; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 5, s. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 65, n.; 1 East, P. C. c.
1, s. 1; Burn's Just. Lewdness.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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