One must be respectful when speaking, and not say obscene things.
Source: tatoeba (474605)
Obscene
//əbˈsiːn//
Synonyms for "obscene" (253 found)
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Closest matches (51)
Strong matches (76)
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134 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- فاحش adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- فَاحِش adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- فَحَّاش adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- قَذِر adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Belarusian
1 entries- непрысто́йны adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Bulgarian
4 entries- неприли́чен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- непристо́ен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- нецензу́рен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- похотли́в adj (lewd or lustful)
Catalan
4 entries- obscè adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscè adj (lewd or lustful)
- obscè adj (disgusting or repulsive)
- obscè adj (beyond all reason)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 下流 adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 令人憎惡的 /令人憎恶的 adj (disgusting or repulsive)
- 低俗 adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 可惡 /可恶 adj (disgusting or repulsive)
Czech
4 entries- neslušný adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscénní adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- oplzlý adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- sprostý adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Finnish
4 entries- heikkoluonteinen adj (liable to deprave or corrupt)
- hillitön adj (beyond all reason)
- himokas adj (lewd or lustful)
- kuvottava adj (disgusting or repulsive)
French
1 entries- obscène adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Galician
1 entries- obsceno adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Georgian
2 entries- უწმაწური adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- უხამსი adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
German
2 entries- obszön adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- unanständig adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Greek
1 entries- αισχρός adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Hindi
2 entries- अश्लील adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- फ़हश adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Hungarian
4 entries- brutális adj (beyond all reason)
- felháborító adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- illetlen adj (lewd or lustful)
- irdatlan adj (beyond all reason)
Indonesian
4 entries- asusila adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- cabul adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- cabul adj (lewd or lustful)
- cabul adj (disgusting or repulsive)
Irish
4 entries- graosta adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- graosta adj (lewd or lustful)
- gáirsiúil adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- gáirsiúil adj (lewd or lustful)
Italian
4 entries- disdicevole adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- immorale adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- indecente adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- laido adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Japanese
4 entries- すけべいな adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- すけべな adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 淫乱な adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 猥褻な adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Korean
3 entries- 외설하다 adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 음란하다 adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- 음탕하다 adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Latin
1 entries- obscēnus adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Macedonian
3 entries- безобразен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- непристоен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- срамотен adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Māori
4 entries- maninohea adj (disgusting or repulsive)
- mōtekoteko adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- mōtekoteko adj (lewd or lustful)
- tīweka adj (lewd or lustful)
Persian
3 entries- فاحش adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- فحاش adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- مستهجن adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- groff adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- groff adj (disgusting or repulsive)
- schmutzich adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Polish
4 entries- nieprzyzwoity adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obsceniczny adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obsceniczny adj (disgusting or repulsive)
- sprośny adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Portuguese
3 entries- obsceno adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obsceno adj (lewd or lustful)
- obsceno adj (disgusting or repulsive)
Romanian
3 entries- imoral adj (liable to deprave or corrupt)
- obscen adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscen adj (liable to deprave or corrupt)
Russian
4 entries- неприли́чный adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- непристо́йный adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- нецензу́рный adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- обсце́нный adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nepristojan adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- непристојан adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Slovak
3 entries- neslušný adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscénny adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- oplzlý adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Slovene
2 entries- nespodoben adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscen adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Spanish
2 entries- obsceno adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- procaz adj (lewd or lustful)
Swedish
2 entries- oanständig adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
- obscen adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Tagalog
1 entries- maruming-isip adj (lewd or lustful)
Tajik
1 entries- беодоб adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Turkish
1 entries- müstehcen adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Ukrainian
1 entries- непристо́йний adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Uzbek
1 entries- beadab adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Welsh
3 entries- anllad adj (lewd or lustful)
- anlladaidd adj (lewd or lustful)
- anweddus adj (offensive to current standards of decency or morality)
Sample sentences
38 total sentences available.
His obscene remarks will be expunged from the record.
Source: tatoeba (569030)
Or are there photographs so obscene that you can't publish them?
Source: tatoeba (703150)
Slanderous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, insulting, threatening and harassing comments are not tolerated.
Source: tatoeba (1038052)
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