indecent

There is the smell here of an indecent rush for scapegoats, even before we know what really caused this crash.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The problem is that being a decent person in an indecent situation is not enough, even though it may also be all you can do.
The Hunger Games Economy|Jedediah Purdy|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr Clifford, 70, denies 11 counts of indecent assault relating to seven alleged victims, aged from 14 to 20 between 1966 and 1984.
This Just In: Max Clifford's Penis Is "Certainly Not Enormous"|Tom Sykes|March 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, Burkman asked a rhetorical question, “Do I want to enter a business of prescribing what is indecent?”
Lobbyist Has An Indecent Proposal for Gays in the NFL|Ben Jacobs|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Instead, he believes “even the very practice of it is indecent.”
Lobbyist Has An Indecent Proposal for Gays in the NFL|Ben Jacobs|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her indecent haste, her hideous petition, show that she shared the furies of her race.
Oscar Wilde|Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Some of their tenets were blasphemous, some indecent, and others ridiculously absurd.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.|Tobias Smollett
All the men wore trousers, for the Church has decided that the lava-lava is indecent.
The Trembling of a Leaf|William Somerset Maugham
Some of these songs are indecent; almost all of them have a morbid sympathy with criminals.
The Night Side of London|J. Ewing Ritchie
But, above all, avoid that indecent practice of whispering and conversation in the house of God.
A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females|Harvey Newcomb

British Dictionary definitions for indecent

indecent

/ (ɪnˈdiːsənt) /

adjective

offensive to standards of decency, esp in sexual matters

unseemly or improper (esp in the phrase indecent haste)

Derived Formsindecently, adverb

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Word Origin and History for indecent

indecent

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1560s, "unbecoming, in bad taste," from French indécent (14c.), from Latin indecentem (nominative indecens), from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + decens (see decent). Sense of "offending against propriety" is from 1610s. Indecent assault (1861) originally covered sexual assaults other than rape or intended rape, but by 1934 it was being used as a euphemism for "rape." Related: Indecently

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