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Adjective: obscene (obscener,obscenest)  ub'seen or ób'seen
  1. Designed to incite to indecency or lust
    "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"
     
  2. Offensive to the mind
    "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee";
    - abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive, absonant [archaic]
     
  3. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
    "obscene telephone calls";
    - lewd, raunchy [informal], salacious

Derived forms: obscener, obscenest

See also: dirty, indecent, offensive

Encyclopedia: Obscene