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Maidenliness

The quality of being maidenly the behavior that becomes a maid modesty gentleness...

Indecent

Not decent unfit to be seen or heard offensive to modesty and delicacy as indecent language...

Impudence

The quality of being impudent assurance accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others shamelessness forwardness lack of modesty...

Immodesty

Lack of modesty delicacy or decent reserve indecency...

downcast

Cast downward directed to the ground from bashfulness modesty dejection or guilt...

Demureness

The state of being demure gravity the show of gravity or modesty...

Demurely

In a demure manner soberly gravely now commonly with a mere show of gravity or modesty...

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...

Bold faced

Somewhat impudent lacking modesty as a bold faced woman...

Obscene

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913).Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three hundred years ago when Sir Charles Sedley exposed his person to the public gaze on the balcony of a tavern. Obscenity in books, however, was punishable only before the spiritual courts because it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was a Common Law offence, Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 881 (887): (1965) 1 SCR 65. (Indian Penal Code, s. 292)The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country dependin...

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