Antonyms for obscene
əbˈsinob·scene

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1. obscene

   Antonyms:
   absolute, chaste, classic, classical, clean, clear, continent, genuine, guileless, guiltless, holy, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, mere, perfect, pure, real, sheer, simple, spotless, stainless, true, unadulterated, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, virtuous

   Synonyms:
   adulterated, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, immodest, impure, indecent, indelicate, lewd, mixed, polluted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean

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1. obscene

   Antonyms:
   pure, modest, decent

   Synonyms:
   impure, immodest, indecent, lewd, four, indelicate, filthy, disgusting, foul-mouthed

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1. obsceneadjective

   designed to incite to indecency or lust

   "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead

   Antonyms:
   decent, inoffensive, clean, unobjectionable

   Synonyms:
   detestable, abhorrent, repulsive, salacious, raunchy, repugnant, lewd

2. abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsiveadjective

   offensive to the mind

   "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, clean, decent, unobjectionable

   Synonyms:
   detestable, execrable, raunchy, odious, repugnant, repulsive(a), abhorrent, lewd, abominable, hideous, repulsive, salacious

3. lewd, obscene, raunchy, salaciousadjective

   suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

   "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

   Antonyms:
   decent, clean, inoffensive, unobjectionable

   Synonyms:
   grimy, salacious, detestable, repugnant, grungy, dingy, lubricious, lascivious, libidinous, begrimed, lustful, grubby, raunchy, prurient, repulsive, abhorrent, lewd

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1. obsceneadjective

   Synonyms:
   smutty, lewd, gross, indecent, immodest, indelicate, ribald

How to use obscene in a sentence?

1. Steve Mellin:

   The defendant comes into court to be formally charged with murdering a little boy, murdering two women and a police officer, he has had months to reflect on the pain and suffering that he has caused. But when he's put in that holding cell, you cannot see a trace of remorse on his face. He paces, he fluffs his hair, and he makes obscene gestures at the marshals watching over him.

2. Communications Salleh Said Keruak:

   It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.

3. Thomas Paine:

   Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

4. Stacy Langton:

   I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’.

5. Summer Lee:

   I don't know that I could have conceptualized what $ 3 million looks like in three weeks. I think that sort of spending is obscene ; it's intentional.

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