nonobscene

adjective

Definition of nonobscenenext
as in decent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonobscene
  1. decent
  2. innocuous
  3. inoffensive
  4. clean
  5. prudish
Adjective
  • Barron is a good skater with a decent shot and strong offensive instincts, but his game in his own end has suffered from moments of indecision and a lack of assertiveness in killing plays, leading to extended shifts in the defensive zone.
    Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But this would be a practical and necessary change — to allow a decent time period for transition while also preventing various abuses and inefficiencies.
    Guy Ciarrocchi, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of decent
Adjective
  • Wow, that’s a lot of shadowy baggage associated with something that might have been a somewhat innocuous remark.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The research presented formaldehyde as relatively innocuous.
    Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of innocuous
Adjective
  • Brightly colored cartoon characters are a fun, inoffensive way to appeal to the youth, and the Catholic Church could stand to shed its image as a dusty, archaic institution.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The lookalike thing feels like an inoffensive trend—a local frenzy that harms nobody, a deluge of unseriousness.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of inoffensive
Adjective
  • At the end of the dredging, sediment that’s not placed on the beach could be left in the pit and covered with a layer of clean sand.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Think about it: the record companies forced them to be clean cut and preppy and all those things.
    Gary Gerard Hamilton, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
Definition of clean
Adjective
  • The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 May 2024
  • Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Definition of prudish
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