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 Ob·scene a.
 1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
    Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly.   --I. Watts.
 2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
    A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.   --Dryden (Aeneid, vi. 417).
 3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
 At the cheerful light,
 The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.   --Dryden.
 Syn: -- Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
 -- Ob*scene*ly, adv. -- Ob*scene*ness, n.
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