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 obscenity [ɒb'si:niti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 淫秽, 淫秽的语言(或行为、动作), 可憎的事

[法] 猥亵, 淫诲, 猥亵的言语或行动




    obscenity
    [ noun ]
    1. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

      2. <noun.attribute>
    2. an offensive or indecent word or phrase

      3. <noun.communication>
    3. an obscene act

      4. <noun.act>


    Obscenity \Ob*scen"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Obscenities}. [L. obscentias:
    cf. F. obsc['e]nit['e].]
    That quality in words or things which presents what is
    offensive to chastity or purity of mind; obscene or impure
    lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as,
    the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.

    Mr. Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place
    in wit. --Dryden.

    No pardon vile obscenity should find. --Pope.

    1. On Wednesday, however, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury convicted record store owner Charles Freeman of obscenity for selling a sexually explicit record by the rap group 2 Live Crew.
    2. The defense rested its case Thursday at the obscenity trial involving Robert Mapplethorpe's photos, and closing arguments in the case were expected Friday.
    3. Record stores stopped selling 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" in April after Leis said he might file obscenity charges.
    4. Opponents of the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit lost a bid in court Wednesday to halt the show they say violates obscenity laws.
    5. "The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire," a best-seller, is a fictionalized biography of the 19th century author known for the sensory imagery of his "Flowers of Evil," a poetry collection condemned in its time for obscenity.
    6. Bolden said he met with band members when they arrived and "told them about the obscenity law. I also told them they could not play any songs from the album," referring to "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." He said the band thanked him for the warning.
    7. Under the compromise, a grant recipient convicted of violating obscenity statutes would be required to give the government its money back.
    8. Though milder than the obscenity ban, the new decency standard has stirred emotional fire from some artists and arts supporters, who contend that it also would hamper freedom of expression.
    9. And WXPN-FM, a radio station owned by the University of Pennsylvania, says it took years to rebuild its image after the FCC revoked its license in 1978 over obscenity.
    10. At the time, Flynt was heavily sedated with powerful drugs to assuage pain from wounds that left him paralyzed after an assassination attempt in 1978 during an obscenity trial in Georgia.
    11. The justices recently boosted efforts to crack down on obscenity.
    12. But the federal law also states that cable operators cannot be held accountable for any libel, obscenity or false advertising carried on a channel it surrendered under the mandatory access provisions.
    13. The matter was worked out when it was agreed to create a new obscenity trafficking offense and the House went on to approve the overall legislation on a 346-11 vote.
    14. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that Theodore Rothstein was entitled to a new trial on federal pornography and obscenity convictions arising from a 1977 FBI undercover operation in Miami, Fla.
    15. A judge's ruling has made it more difficult for an art gallery and its director to fight obscenity charges for displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually graphic photographs, a defense lawyer says.
    16. Barrie was acquitted Oct. 5 of pandering obscenity for exhibiting photos by the late Robert Mapplethorpe at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.
    17. Karl Brussel, a New York porn distributor, similarly pleaded guilty last month to reduced obscenity charges rather than face four trials scheduled within seven weeks.
    18. A weary House Speaker Jim Wright predicted Thursday night that both houses would approve the leaders' "final agreement" on the drug bill today, but cautioned that the obscenity language could not be "nailed down" until lawmakers reviewed it.
    19. The House on Thursday left intact funds for abortions in the District of Columbia but cut money for the city's university in what officials there say is a dispute over art and obscenity.
    20. The conferees, borrowing from the benchmark 1973 Supreme Court decision on obscenity, agreed that the works must lack significant literary, artistic, political or scientific merit to be denied funding.
    21. If the prosecutors who charged the book with obscenity are to be believed, this sloping quarter of 'boarding schools, churches and big derelict mansions' was the birthplace of modern adultery.
    22. "All they see in American movies is variations on obscenity, boozing and (sex)," Mankiewicz told reporters Wednesday.
    23. Controversy raging over art in much of the country centers on obscenity, but on the high-tech MIT campus the argument is whether a big hairy thing is thought-provoking or just an eyesore.
    24. Prosecutors will have to convince a jury that the photos violate community standards in order to get an obscenity conviction.
    25. At issue is whether the seven Mapplethorpe photos violated community standards of obscenity.
    26. Free-speech debate recently has blossomed in Florida following the arrests on obscenity charges of members of the 2 Live Crew rap-music group over their lyrics, a crackdown on adult video rentals and revised swimsuit rules.
    27. He also was part of a three-judge panel that convicted the producer, playwright, and cast of the play "Che!" on obscenity charges.
    28. Currently 11 states besides Florida list obscenity as a crime that can be prosecuted under their RICO laws.
    29. Jury composition is particularly sensitive because obscenity cases are decided on the basis of how the panel defines community standards.
    30. The decision is likely to make obscenity prosecutions less subject to the whims of local prosecutors or local anti-pornography groups.
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