How to Use obscenity in a Sentence

obscenity

noun

• The author uses obscenity to make a point about the culture.
• Others said the portly 72-year-old would shout obscenities in his front yard when some chore went awry.
  — Tony Bizjak, Anita Chabria, Dale Kasler, Nashelly Chavez and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
• The whole neighborhood would be able to hear Rose spout foul-mouthed obscenities and insults at others.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• But his apologies were met with an emotional, obscenity-laced attack.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2018
• Virtual Self is a sweaty warehouse pounding to the point of obscenity.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2018
• Even before dawn the marina is loud with gulls and banging halyards and happy obscenity.
  — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
• He has been fined on obscenity charges in Japan, and while some critics consider him a maestro, others deem his work pornography.
  — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• Women on bicycles were pelted with objects and obscenities.
  — Christine Ro, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2018
• Some of the graffiti included racist language and obscenities.
  — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• Stacy, a young single mother, tries to restrain her 10-year-old, Ethan, who is screaming obscenities and threatening to kill people.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• In the footage released on social media showed Cardi yelling obscenities and throwing her shoe at Minaj while also leaving the event with no shoes and a knot on her forehead.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2024
• Just last week, a Texas councilwoman was charged with disorderly conduct after shouting obscenities at a group of teen girls because of a Trump shirt.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 9 Apr. 2018
• The video was posted Sunday by the boy's mother, Clarice Conner, with an obscenity-laced rebuke of the parents whose students bullied her son.
  — Mark Price, miamiherald, 19 Apr. 2018
• The video was posted Sunday by the boy's his mother, Clarice Conner, with an obscenity-laced rebuke of the parents whose students bullied her son.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 19 Apr. 2018
• That work decides whether involving a piece of content breaks the company’s policies around fake news, hate speech, obscenity, and other inadmissible forms of content.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2018
• The Lahren women instead got accosted at the Union Restaurant, and Topher had water and obscenities hurled at her.
  — Yesha Callahan, The Root, 23 May 2018
• Our clothes were drenched to the point that obscenity charges could be levied.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• But there’s more than one kind of obscenity in the world, and more than one kind of assault.
  — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2024
• Yet a whiff of pretext surrounds more than a few of the cries of obscenity.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• In 2004, the charges were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser obscenity charge.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 31 July 2023
• One agent is heard on video shouting an obscenity as a child jumps out of the horse’s path.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• The man responded that the deputy should pay his bill and used an obscenity.
  — Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• As Roth said many times himself, obscenity was not a new thing in 1969.
  — Christopher Shea, Vox, 25 May 2018
• The man yelled obscenities and ignored the trooper's orders to turn his SUV around.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 26 Aug. 2019
• But none of this should be taken as proof that there was no concept of obscenity in the Middle Ages.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 4 May 2020
• While attending the verdict via video link, Ms. Nyanzi screamed obscenities at the court and bared her breasts in protest.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• At the same time, a mob of angry white people snarls, yells obscenities, and hurls glass bottles at them.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• Amelia Hoffman slams on the gas and screams obscenities out the window as her hatchback hurtles across the open field.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2018
• The problem with billionaires was not just the obscenity of their wealth.
  — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• The group pushed back and went to court several times to overturn the obscenity rulings.
  — Victor Oquendo, ABC News, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024