1 (of behaviour, talk, etc.) thought to be morally offensive, especially because it involves sex or being naked:
indecent conduct / photos / language * He made an indecent suggestion to my wife.
compareDECENT
2 (of clothes) showing parts of the body that are usually covered:
That skirt of hers is positively indecent.
3 not done in the appropriate or usual amount of time:
They left the funeral with almost indecent haste (= too quickly).
indecently adverb:
He was charged with indecently assaulting five women. * She was deemed to be indecently dressed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for indecent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is indecent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, indecent is tagged as adjective.
Does indecent appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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