Decency - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: decency Page: 2 Page 2 of about 21 results (0.002 seconds)louche
of questionable taste decency or morality not reputable as a louche nightclub a louche painting...
Outrageous
Of the nature of an outrage exceeding the limits of right reason or decency such as to cause outrage involving or doing an outrage furious violent atrocious...
Honesty
Honor honorableness dignity propriety suitableness decency...
Decorum
Propriety of manner or conduct grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to ones own character or to the place and occasion decency of conduct seemliness that which is seemly or suitable...
Decency
The quality or state of being decent suitable or becoming in words or behavior propriety of form in social intercourse in actions or in discourse proper formality becoming ceremony seemliness hence freedom from obscenity or indecorum modesty...
Decence
Decency...
Clothes
Covering for the human body dress vestments vesture a general term for whatever covering is worn or is made to be worn for decency or comfort...
outrageous
outrageous : going beyond standards of decency : utterly intolerable in a civilized society [ conduct] out·ra·geous·ly adv out·ra·geous·ness n ...
obscene
obscene [Middle French, from Latin obscenus obscaenus indecent, lewd] : extremely or deeply offensive according to contemporary community standards of morality or decency see also Roth v. United States in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that obscene applies to materials that appeal predominantly to a prurient interest in sexual conduct, depict or describe sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Material or expression deemed obscene by the court is not protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...
disorderly conduct
disorderly conduct : conduct that is likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency ;also : the petty offense of engaging in disorderly conduct compare breach of the peace NOTE: The term disorderly conduct is used in statutes to identify various acts against the public peace. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, the blocking of public ways, and the making of threats. A statute must identify acts that constitute disorderly conduct with sufficient clarity in order to avoid being held unconstitutional because of vagueness. ...
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