impudicity

American  

[im-pyoo-dis-i-tee] / ˌɪm pyʊˈdɪs ɪ ti /

noun

1. immodesty.

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impudicity British  

/ ˌɪmpjʊˈdɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. rare immodesty

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Etymology

Origin of impudicity

1520–30; < Middle French impudicité < Latin impudīc ( us ) immodest ( im- im- ² + pudīcus modest; impudent ) + Middle French -ité -ity

Example Sentences

Says Thomas Bauzou, a professor of ancient history at France’s Université d’Orléans who does archaeological research in Gaza: “From the Islamic point of view, it is an idol and an impudicity.”

From BusinessWeek

Let us not confuse the issue: The spectacle of a woman fondling passionately a severed and reeking head and puling over its dead-94- lips, is not necessarily deleterious to morals, nor is it necessarily an act of impudicity; it is merely, for those whose calling does not happen to induce familiarity with mortuary things, horrible and revolting.

From Project Gutenberg

But what could a mere English reader make of words such as these—‘impudicity’, ‘ebrieties’, ‘comessations’, ‘longanimity’, all which occur in that passage? while our Version for ‘ebrieties’ has ‘drunkenness’, for ‘comessations’ has ‘revellings’, and so also for ‘longanimity’ ‘longsuffering’.

From Project Gutenberg