noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shout obscenities
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They came to his apartment, shouting obscenities and threatening him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
law
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In a male supremacist society the only obscenity law that will not be used against women is no law at all.
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It also wants a reform of the defamation and obscenity laws .
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The operation of the obscenity law depended to some extent upon the crusading zeal of current law officers.
■ VERB
shout
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We drove past guys in gang colors, shouting obscenities , throwing bottles, hanging out.
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About 30 percent of the time, these largely involuntary vocalizations consist of shouting words, sometimes obscenities .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Protestors hurled rocks and screamed obscenities.
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Rick burst into the apartment, drunk and shouting obscenities.
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Someone had written obscenities all over the classroom wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the pleasure I took in hearing about his obscenities soon passed.
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He suspected her existence was an obscenity .
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President Nixon punctuated his Watergate tapes with obscenities.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
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The teens, agitated by their restriction, were randomly leaving their living quarters and vehemently hurling obscenities and spitting at staff.
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This would, in Britain, be a test of indecency, not obscenity .