How to Use indecent in a Sentence

indecent

adjective

• He took indecent pleasure in her troubles.
• The in-court performance was to prove that the play wasn’t indecent.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• There's a sense in which there are some just indecent people in the White House.
  — NBC News, 11 Feb. 2018
• Despite the backlash from the press, which called her indecent, Lenglen went on to win the tournament.
  — Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• In a voice-over, a narrator blasts them all for being indecent and crude.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 21 July 2021
• It simply wasn’t done; therefore, the doing of it was indecent.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
• Jonathan Busch, 54, is charged with statutory rape of a child under the age of 15 and indecent liberties with a child.
  — Chris Perez, Fox News, 23 June 2018
• At the time, books like Adams’s were considered indecent and often burned.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• He was also charged with six more counts of indecent liberties with a child.
  — charlotteobserver, 20 Oct. 2017
• This fondling would have looked indecent if anyone had been watching.
  — Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• Jonathan Conrad Busch, 54, of Mooresville, is charged with two counts each of statutory rape of a child under the age of 15 and indecent liberties with a child.
  — Wbtv, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2018
• They were booked with indecent exposure and released on bond, the story said.
  — NOLA.com, 28 May 2017
• The data paired with the photos would be used to teach A.I. software how to recognize indecent images.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• Madsen, 47, is charged with murder, dismemberment and indecent handling of a corpse over the death of Kim Wall.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• The next year, Joseph pleaded guilty to a single count of indecent liberties with a child and received 36 months of probation.
  — Tiffany Stanley, Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2020
• One of them had in the past received a caution for distributing indecent images of children.
  — The Economist, 27 Nov. 2019
• He is also being held on preliminary charges of the indecent handling of a corpse.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• The charge was later reduced to indecent liberties with a minor female child, a 10-year felony.
  — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
• The software worked by scanning pages for indecent or obscene words, but only English ones; sites in French often slipped past the blockade.
  — B. Pietras, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2020
• Cosby has pleaded not guilty to three charges of aggravated indecent assault in the case.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 6 June 2017
• Taking a hard-nosed view of someone’s decades-long public life is somehow indecent, according to this norm.
  — Harish C Menon, Quartz India, 26 Aug. 2019
• Both propositions are flawed, not least because of the indecent haste in which analysts have jumped to conclusions.
  — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• West, 26, of Kenner, was booked with two counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to jail records.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 5 June 2018
• A Mother’s Day call to police in Fort Mill about a dispute over $50 ended with charges for drugs, assault and indecent exposure, police said.
  — Andrew Dys, charlotteobserver, 17 May 2017
• The 63-year-old was also charged with taking indecent liberties with a student and a committing crime against nature.
  — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2019
• He is charged with two counts of indecent liberties by a custodian.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• Zola was a popular novelist, but many thought him a scandalous and indecent one.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• He had been charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• Davis is facing five counts of indecent viewing or production of a picture and one charge of tampering with physical evidence.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• Anything that is still flagged as indecent but does not directly include something on that list can be looked at by a school district for providing value in its entirety, beyond just one scene.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024