Sentence Examples:
With his damn'd Characters, and Plot obscene.
"Don't blink at me in that obscene way," she said.
It is a dangerous habit also to approach obscene talk.
I was twenty-one years in that cage of obscene birds.
If aught can be obscene, he was obscene.
I felt, for a moment, obscene in that sunshine; but I had another and a stronger feeling.
There was something obscene and hideous in your miserable condition.
It must not be supposed that sensual love is necessarily coarse and obscene.
Fifty years ago our city was flooded by obscene literature which sought no concealment.
All the obscene apparatus of London life was there.
"It's a damned obscene country," he would say.
Possessing the qualities of obscene conversation.
Others, round and squat, resembled the fat and obscene deities of Eastern religions.
It is vaguely supposed to be highly obscene, though just why nobody seems to know.
The siren had the obscene and terrific note of a gigantic hen in delirium.
Obscene, he kept on calling it.
It was as if it was something obscene.
Least terrible among the obscene threats were: "Death to the Gringos!"
Verses the most obscene imaginable are ordered to be read on the occasion.
Scrip, a coarse or obscene gesture.
Simmons was telling that I used obscene language to her husband.
"She is probably reading some obscene novel, and won't be wanting you."
Hymns and processions took the place of obscene choruses and pagan triumphs.
He brought out a batch of obscene photographs, chuckling over them.
Into this I was thrust, with some obscene jesting, and the door was locked upon me.
The discussions of boys are often obscene.
These two were very popular, and indulged in many acts that bordered on the obscene.
They are full of oaths and obscene songs.
That obscene bird is not there for nothing.
I have set a bad example with my obscene words and actions.
Platt drifted from the obscene into the incomprehensible.
Their habits were obscene and nocturnal.
He threw at them an obscene word.
The obscene expresses scorn and hatred for personal love.
It was as though the mud in him had been stirred by an obscene hand.
The black-bearded nobleman was shocked at such an obscene idea.
Their special dance is never obscene, like that of the Delight Makers.
Obscene and profane language is sweeping like an epidemic through the camps.
Again the ghosts issued forth from the old well in their obscene riot.
His fall disturbed a thousand obscene things.
That night I dreamt of obscene things.
You get the obscene post cards which most youths possess.
They sing the most obscene songs and give vent to all their passions.
Night was their friend, and they were banded together in a league of obscene secrecy.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger!
The drums and the song were still going, and the chant had become more obscene.
It was beautiful and obscene.
She says it is frankly obscene.
Will you ram that through your obscene skull, Thorn!
He said the last as though it were an obscene word.
Its activities are not obscene, but Nature's own means to certain legitimate ends.
Somehow it looked obscene, and I had to fight the impulse to tear it out.
What is said of obscene realism?
The reeling mind stops its ears against these obscene suggestions.
The thing seized her in its obscene embrace.
Still more frequent were the cases of cursing the King, sometimes in obscene terms.
Further, there is an obscene allusion which the actor indicates by a gesture.
It seemed obscene despite the fact that it was merely the drinking of water.
Violent sports are frowned on, considered in bad taste if not actually obscene.
It responded not to challenge, and visual contact obscene horror showed.
He said in substance, if not literally: "Any discussion of sex is obscene."
The obscene book was removed from circulation.
The world in general found his theories ridiculous or obscene.
All at once he looked vulgar, obscene.
Obscene books had been found in his possession.
That obscene wretch cannot be our sovereign.
As she did so the four men burst into hoarse laughter and obscene remarks.
That obscene bird is not there for nothing.
He surveyed Bell with an obscene, horrible amusement.
They are not obscene, except by inference.
An obscene laugh swept through the ranks.
The air was poisoned by foul sewage and dark with obscene flies.
Morgan said one obscene word and stood up.
The waiter, who was in the room, rapped out a good round obscene oath of surprise.
We see in them only what is grotesque or perhaps obscene.
Examine your obscene text, please; count the words.
I enjoy the Colonel very much, and shall enjoy the rest of him with an obscene delight.
What if the obscene things got hold of John's mind.
So, of course, it became obscene to appear in public without one.
And amidst shouts and obscene jests, these Romans formed a sort of mock procession.
Insulting rhymes and obscene pictures were flung over the walls of the garden.
Obscene practical jokes were constantly played.
Inside are wooden images, sometimes of an obscene nature, to which reverence is paid.
It seems to me good, pious wit, and not obscene like the other.
Must she breed obscene things to echo it?
My taste in Sculpture from my choice is seen, I buy no statues that are not obscene.
If 'damn you' is obscene, then I was obscene.
Some which are obscene, or which are dangerous on other grounds, must be prohibited.
Or perhaps you would prefer some more obscene chorus?
It was like being in a cage with a host of obscene bats fluttering about.
It felt obscene to talk about her when she was sitting right there with them.
To say it is ever "obscene" is an abuse of words.
He read portions of the Bible in court to prove he was justified in calling it obscene.
It was nonsense and obscene nonsense.
Habitual obscene story telling grows like other vicious habits.
Are you the author of this obscene manuscript?
His reply was a series of picturesque and obscene oaths.
Rose heard occasionally obscene words among the hands.
Of love and marriage coarse men speak with sneers and obscene jests.