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

In an indecent manner.

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.

Gross; indelicate; indecent. [Obs.] Marston.

To romp rudely or indecently. Swift.

Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought, But we proscribe the least immodest thought. Dryden.

ed to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, I…

The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.

Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).

a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.

ky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.

Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight. Spenser.

Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.

er time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

Indecent. [Obs.]

Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.