Thesaurus:obscene
English
Adjective
Sense: suggestive or provocative of sexual impropriety
Synonyms
- adult [⇒ thesaurus]
- bawdy
- blue [⇒ thesaurus]
- cheeky [⇒ thesaurus]
- dirty [⇒ thesaurus]
- indecent
- filthy
- gross
- harlot (rare)
- ithyphallic
- lewd
- mucky
- naughty
- near the knuckle (UK)
- obscene
- off-colour (idiomatic)
- racy
- raunchy
- ribald
- ribaudred
- ribaudrous
- risqué
- rorty (UK)
- salacious
- saucy
- shocking
- sluttish
- slutlike
- slutty
- smutty
- spicy [⇒ thesaurus]
- tartish
- tarty
- trampy
- vulgar
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Further reading
- “961. impurity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “obscene” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.