Collocation Dictionary

Try "happy" or "love"

Searching for...

No matching words found

Try a different search term or browse the dictionary

Common collocations with obscene in American Collocation

obscene adjective

US /ɑbˈsin/

very or completely

absolutely
downright
particularly
truly

A name may translate into something funny or downright obscene in another language.

To welcome the use of this technology for beer and drugs, while denying it to those in need of food, seems to me to be truly obscene.

fairly or almost

almost
quite
rather
vaguely

Viz’s writers would latch onto any vaguely obscene street slang and print it.

sexually obscene

abuse
call
gesture
graffiti
joke
language

He made an obscene gesture to Radebe’s back as he walked away.

morally obscene

amount
inequality
profit
wealth

A small minority at the top enjoy obscene wealth while a massive majority exists in abject poverty and misery.

abusive
defamatory
indecent
lewd
libellous
offensive
pornographic
profane
racist
threatening
vulgar

The contents of the message were described by the judge as “obscene and defamatory”.