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indecent

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪnˈdiːs(ə)nt//
  • Canada//ɪnˈdi.sənt//
  • Australia//ɪnˈdiː.sənt//
  • Australia/[ɪnˈdɪi.sənt]/

Offensive to good taste.

adjective

  1. 1

    Offensive to good taste.

    indecent comment

    indecent videos

  2. 2

    Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.

  3. 3

    Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.

Etymology

From in- + decent.

Forms

comparative
more indecent
superlative
most indecent
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).