Example Sentences

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“Even those who think themselves inured to the indecencies of modern fiction will find much of ‘The Tin Drum’ excessively nasty.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2015

It is the sad fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones.

From Time Magazine Archive

The indecencies in Chaucer and Shakespeare are to be attributed to the grossness of their times.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

Genius puts indecencies into its works, because God puts them into His world.

From Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today by Legler, Henry Eduard