Sentence Examples:
Obscene delight raged in the crowded boat, with yells and laughter, and flourish of bamboo poles.
Nor is it easy to conceive of all the torments that those miserable, obscene wretches were able to inflict upon him.
He disguises himself before me, and laughs, laughs, when I fail to recognize his filthy, obscene countenance.
They lost their tempers easily and called one another names, while oaths and obscene allusions were frequent on their lips.
Not a sound was to be heard save the fluttering of birds' wings among the trees, and the obscene chattering of the monkeys among the leaves.
They read it, laughed at it, and laid it on the table; and at the close of the session, by a unanimous vote, they retired in a solid body to witness the obscene show themselves.
Such scenes have much decreased, and instead of the obscene and heathen songs which they used to sing, they are learning hymns from the lips of their children.
Often the story is of coarser materials, and the king is entertained with low and obscene adventures.
It is an obscene survival, a phenomenon that has strayed through some negligence of fate, into the wrong century.
One often hears women abuse their husbands or other men in the most obscene language, even on the street, and the men do not dare to make the least retort.
Is the one enemy against which no law can protect any son of Adam; since the real reasons that make or break a man are too absurd or too obscene to be reached from outside.
The attempts at portraying the human face or form resulted only in the monstrous and the obscene.
Her large fixed eyes gazed upon you, and a luminous stone, set in an obscene symbol on her brow, lighted the whole hall by its reflection in red copper mirrors above the door.
Obscene beasts every one of them; but I hate the Germans most, for they are the most disgusting invalids.
I had always disliked conversation that might be regarded as bordering on the obscene, and consequently was very ignorant on most matters; it pained me even to hear him laugh at such remarks.
If one loves a person one finds nothing obscene or disgusting in the object that pleases me.
There would not have been any words which could be called obscene, but all that might be said of these members would have been as pure as what is said of the other parts of the body
Later on he gave them some specimens of his obscene conversation, so that they were glad to continue their journey without him.
And he was profane and obscene, egging the men on against the corporal, who had been allowing them to starve.
And it seemed to Margaret that a fire burned in her veins, and her soul fled from her body; but a new soul came in its place, and suddenly she knew all that was obscene.
It finishes by an obscene night dance, in the course of which the new warriors select their partners.
Immediately their gaze met another gaze it leapt away as from something dangerous or obscene.
Boys and common people run about the streets sprinkling red water or red powder over all passengers, and using abusive (obscene) language.
At length his state became such, that he could not see any person of the other sex, whatever her age or appearance, without letting fall some obscene remark about her looks or her figure.
His examination brought out the fact that I compelled him to turn some obscene pictures to the wall once, when I called to see him in his office.
I began to curse boldly at him, calling him by all the obscene terms I had ever learned or heard.
And at that hour the streets were quiet and silent, nor was her youthful ear shocked by the sounds which too often broke along the obscene and obscure haunts she patiently and sadly traversed.
Any man permits a joke on women in general, but he will not permit an obscene joke about his wife or his mother.
They consisted of a string of obscene guesses, founded upon circumstances that were certainly compatible with guilt, but no less compatible with innocence.
She is a young lady about whom I think even you would not make your obscene jokes if you knew her.
I had been deaf otherwise, what with the mate's obscene, shrill voice ringing through the ship, and the rattle of blocks, the cries of men, and the tramp of their feet as they pulled together.
The bully objected, with a deal of obscene threatening, to my fancied raiding of his property.
Both he and Rossetti had the faculty of being foolish, or obscene, without impairing the high seriousness of their superb poetic gifts.
The obscene is the darker aspect of modern love, and without modern love it could not exist.
The photograph of a nude woman is not obscene; but if the face is hidden, and thus the personal moment intentionally eliminated in favor of the generic element, it approaches the obscene.
This can only be found in the sphere of the obscene in which the element of personality is entirely eliminated.
To the normal woman the obscene does not exist as a spiritual principle; she turns with a feeling of displeasure from all the lower sexual manifestations, and even finds them absurd.
They lifted up one of the steps and found beneath two invalids, who had got under the altar in the night, with no other design, as they declared, than a childish and obscene curiosity.
It is also comforting to be assured that there is not much deliberate telling of obscene stories.
A soldier will ordinarily hide his religion and is afraid to be seen praying or doing anything that makes him peculiar, although the most immoral and obscene man is not ashamed of his actions.
That pious man liked to have the talk mainly to himself, and he thought that anything not obscene was tame.
Yet, knowing the strength and desire of this obscene one and the weakness of our power, it is plain that only with cunning can cunning be met.
His first stroke sent the obscene corporal to the floor, minus front teeth and consciousness.
Obscene remarks were chalked on the walls, and the pictures were improved with heavy attempts at fun.
She was dancing a mean dance and singing an obscene song before an audience consisting mostly of drunken sailors.
Becomes excited, violent, profane, incoherent and obscene in speech, and attempted to assault the officer.
The necessary implication, of course, was that the publication complained of was actually obscene.
Conventions may be cruel, they may be unsuitable, they may even be grossly superstitious or obscene; but there is one thing that they never are.
Ferrara spoke, with a calm suddenly regained: "Is there anything obscene in the study of beetles?"
A teacher came to him and said, "I've got a boy in my class that must be taken out; he breaks the rules continually, he swears and uses obscene language, and I cannot do anything with him."
Women carried through the streets of the cities the most obscene and revolting representations.
The obscene, the feminine, and the political were by general cultural agreement usually omitted.
Its words being naturally obscene, the public journals are forbidden to make the slightest allusion to them.
It would only be in vain to endeavor to relate how obscene and horrible they were; and the longer I looked at any one of them, seven times more hideous he appeared.
Human victims were offered to their obscene deities by their priests in their temples, groves, and high places.
It was time for such as she to hide themselves, with the other obscene things of night, from the glorious light of day, which was only for the happy.
Before they were a mile off the ox was dead, its eyes were out, its carcass torn open, and the obscene birds were gorging themselves.
Slang words and obscene are his daily vocabulary; selfishness his best-developed trait, and want the only incentive for his labor.
If conservatism compels the priests to keep obscene old practices in their rituals, they are not always satisfied with them, and voices begin to be heard pleading that these rites are really obsolete.
Don't indulge in the use of profane or obscene language, or in any acts of deceit, falsehood or theft.
When George Francis Train picked out certain parts of the Bible and printed them, and was arrested for publishing obscene literature, the charge was proper and right.
As many of the acts of these priests may be regarded as obscene from our point of view, it is not improbable that this figure may represent an ancient member of this archaic priesthood.
It has been said that his talent for the relation of obscene stories engaged the attention and confidence of President Lincoln.
He glanced at the veiled statue, but turned his eyes away from it immediately, as if it were something obscene or otherwise disgusting.
It is evident that the lust of blood was educated into the mores by public executions with torture, by obscene adjuncts, by inhuman sports, and by public shows.
Lincoln loved to tell obscene or profane stories, but they do great injustice to one of the purest and best men I have ever known.
And if obscene, why would he want to leave them when the obscene seemed so comfortable to him despite his moral objections of himself for it being such.
If obscene, was it not even more obscene that this, which was an inception of all, was all there was?
He claims to have softened the glaring colors of the original and to have discarded, or altered the obscene pictures.
It is said that the effectiveness of the work done is best shown by the one or more libraries of obscene books which the society, or some of its officers, have collected.
As he halted, he heard laughter and obscene songs from a house a little in his rear, between himself and the spy.
And then without a pause he turned to one of the girls and made an obscene remark which sent them all into fits of laughter.
The language of these advertisements can only be described as obscene, and their possible effects on immature and inexperienced minds can well be imagined.
This book and the tragic child form to my idea one of the final eruptions of the ancient and the obscene.
Thus, the only thing that is left is to finally come forward with the factual proof that those frequently mentioned obscene passages were not written by you, but edited in by the publisher.
What mastery over self does a man have who for the purpose of controlling his habit of dirty and obscene speech seeks the intervention of a saint?
The discussions in the Constitutional Convention were voted to be dropped from the records, because they were so low and obscene.
In too many of them the most obscene and soul-polluting books and pictures circulate among both sexes.
I've wanted to get out of this obscene nest of provincial stupidity from the day I first came here.
Thus, from a number of girls' schools come reports of the circulation of thoroughly obscene writings among girls from twelve to fourteen years of age.
In boys' schools, the circulating matter consists rather of obscene printed books and pictures.
In the first place, there is in the nature of man an aversion to the shameful and the obscene, and this the more powerful in the best and well-educated natures.
I was one day travelling in the mail, and a certain person in one corner began a most obscene conversation, with a gentleman who came to see him at the door of the mail, while it was changing horses.
The phrase had a funny sound to it when you coupled it with the Combine, an almost obscene sound.
Jim Wilder stood by, swearing by all his obscene deities that if that man hurt Whetstone, he'd kill him for his hide.
I recollected my collection of obscene pictures, and I begged Leah to give me the box, telling her that I would shew her some of the most beautiful breasts in the world.
"I'll begin by reminding you that there are more things in existence than your obscene medical books tell you about."
The slightest defect in anything, the most insignificant or unusual noise brought forth an obscene and infamous expression; but no one responded.
He was taken to a garden where a number of young girls, selected for their extraordinary beauty and entirely nude, executed in his presence the most obscene dances.
Perhaps it was an obscene story, the memory of which keeps coming back to distress you, even at the most solemn moments.
He would certainly not tell obscene stories aloud in public or knock up against ladies without apologizing.
With language too obscene to utter in this century, he mocked at the Great Charter of English Liberty.
Work may be original in substance, method, and viewpoint without being obscene or even "frank."
As soon as darkness came on, the surrounding dwellings echoed with the music, and in the groves brilliant lights revealed everything that was obscene and improper.
One slip, and he'd glance off at a tangent and be captured by those reaching, grasping obscene hands in the crowd.
From outside the closed doors, he could hear the obscene jests exchanged by two armed guards.
Robert was very angry about the Absolute and used to draw obscene pictures of it, adding appropriate lyrics.
It was as though all the doves of peace were flying down to fold their wings above the obscene things of war.
His representation of Matter destroys the appetite like a nightmare that has escaped from the obscene bowels of the sea.
On the other hand, there is an equally large number of people who have no delicacy at all but who are always ready to greet the obscene with a cheer.