Usually means: Lack of propriety in behavior.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word indecency:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. indecency: Merriam-Webster
  2. indecency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. indecency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. indecency: Vocabulary.com
  5. Indecency, indecency: Wordnik
  6. indecency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. indecency: Wiktionary
  8. indecency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. indecency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. indecency: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Indecency, indecency: Dictionary.com
  12. Indecency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Indecency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. indecency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. indecency: Rhymezone
  16. Indecency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. indecency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. indecency: FreeDictionary.org
  19. indecency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. indecency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. indecency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  22. indecency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. indecency: Legal dictionary
  3. indecency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent
▸ noun:  Something showing lack of decency; something (such as a word) that is indecent.

Similar:
impropriety, indecence, undecency, indecentness, undecorousness, indecorum, indecorousness, obscenity, indelicateness, indelicacy, more...

Opposite:
decency, propriety, modesty, decorum

Types:
obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, coarseness, lewdness, crudeness, indecorousness, more...

Phrases:
gross indecency, Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, opposite of indecency, more...

Adjectives:
gross, public, such, great, sexual, much, alleged, less, shameless, extreme, revolting

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Similar:
impropriety, indecence, undecency, indecentness, undecorousness, indecorum, indecorousness, obscenity, indelicateness, indelicacy, more...

Opposite:
decency, propriety, modesty, decorum

Types:
obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, coarseness, lewdness, crudeness, indecorousness, more...

Phrases:
gross indecency, Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, opposite of indecency, more...

Adjectives:
gross, public, such, great, sexual, much, alleged, less, shameless, extreme, revolting



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