How to Use obscene in a Sentence

obscene

adjective

• He spends an obscene amount of money on clothes.
• He made an obscene gesture at the driver who cut him off.
• He was accused of making obscene phone calls.
• The company's executives earn obscene salaries.
• If the judge finds the book is not obscene, the filing is dismissed.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• Forget about the price tag, which is obscene, of course.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
• The film, which features an all-Asian cast, does not hold back on the vulgar and obscene.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• The cost for the two items—more than three hundred dollars—had struck me as obscene.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• The highlight of the scene is the obscene amount of blood that sprays the audience that has come to see Sue at the New Year’s Eve show.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
• The sons say the boys used it to make an obscene gesture to the school librarian.
  — James Walsh, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• The obscene sign is allowed and they were granted a permit.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
• His inviting wealthy art tourists to come visit at a cost of $6,500 per night is obscene.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
• The department will be in charge of ruling whether books are obscene under the law.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The worker said the man honked his horn, rolled down his window and made an obscene gesture.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2022
• The man is being charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The law forbids the sending of obscene materials through the mail.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• Calls people by their names, and not the kind of generic obscene names the old-time managers favored.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2021
• But what these parents had to suffer in the process, on top of what had already occurred, was obscene.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
• The victim honked his horn at the man, who responded with an obscene hand gesture.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• But with all of that new traffic came extra hate speech and obscene content.
  — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
• Melissa Broder must be one of the most obscene writers alive, and one of the most captivating.
  — Glamour, 18 Mar. 2021
• Cuzela implored the board to audit all of the district’s library books and get rid of those that are too obscene to be read aloud in public.
  — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2022
• And third, because of an obscene amount of time pressure to perform quickly.
  — Gianluca Russo, refinery29.com, 12 July 2022
• The oval field was apple-green; in a dry, hundred-and-four-degree heat, the color seemed almost obscene.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Her remarks weren’t obscene — at least, no more than anyone else’s.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• There is never a great time to spend obscene amounts of money fixing problems years in the making.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• If Italy decided to sell off these trappings of obscene wealth at an auction, what should the event be called?
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 May 2022
• But the book was still deemed obscene, and Dennett was charged with violating the Comstock Act.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• But medicine is full of terms that sound funny or disgusting or obscene.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• But for many, this artist-friendly flourish rings hollow as the music industry rakes in obscene amounts of money and the vast majority of artists, or their estates, see very little of it.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024