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indecency law

Meaning of "indecency law" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF INDECENCY LAW

ɪnˈdiːsənsɪ lɔː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDECENCY LAW

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indecency law is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDECENCY LAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Obscenity

An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin obscaena a cognate of the Ancient Greek root skene, because some potentially offensive content, such as murder or sex, was depicted offstage in classical drama. The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war".

Definition of indecency law in the English dictionary

The definition of indecency law in the dictionary is the law relating to indecency.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDECENCY LAW

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDECENCY LAW

indecencies · indecency · indecency charge · indecent · indecent assault · indecent behaviour · indecent exposure · indecently · indeciduate · indeciduous · indecipherability · indecipherable · indecipherableness · indecipherably · indecision · indecisive · indecisively · indecisiveness · indeclinable · indeclinableness

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDECENCY LAW

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Synonyms and antonyms of indecency law in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indecency law» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF INDECENCY LAW

Find out the translation of indecency law to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of indecency law from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indecency law» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

猥亵法
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ley indecencia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

indecency law
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अभद्रता कानून
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القانون الفحشاء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

непристойность закон
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

lei indecência
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অশ্লীলতা আইন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

droit de l´indécence
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Undang-undang tidak senonoh
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Unanständigkeit Recht
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

わいせつ法
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

외설 법
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hukum indecency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pháp luật không đứng đắn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இழிவான சட்டம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अश्लील कायदा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Ahlaksızlık yasası
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

legge indecenza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

prawo nieprzyzwoitość
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

непристойність закон
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

drept indecenta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νόμο απρέπεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onsedelikheid wet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indecency lag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uanstendighet lov
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indecency law

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDECENCY LAW»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of indecency law
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «indecency law».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indecency law

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDECENCY LAW»

Discover the use of indecency law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indecency law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints, and the Modern Media
In 1988 it passed a statute ordering the FCC to enforce the anti-indecency law twenty-four hours a day. Thus Congress and the FCC had moved well beyond the narrow enforcement circumstances that the Supreme Court had approved in ...
John Zelezny, 2010
2
Sex and the Supreme Court: Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada
While reforms have been made, especially in light of feminist and queer challenges, Kramar and Jochelson use Foucault's governmentality framework to show that the liberal harm strategy for governing obscenity and indecency continues to ...
Richard Jochelson, Kirsten Johnson Kramar, 2011
3
Broadcast and Internet Indecency: Defining Free Speech
“Standpoint: On the regulation of broadcast indecency to protect children,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 36(1), 111–117. Driscoll, Paul D. ( 1989, August) “The federal communications commission and broadcast indecency,” Law ...
Jeremy Lipschultz, 2007
4
Dirty Discourse: Sex and Indecency in Broadcasting
One of the FCC's important responsibilities is to enforce the Broadcast Indecency Law (18 U.S.C 1464) against TV and radio stations. The FCC's definition of broadcast indecency reads: “language or material that in context depicts or describes ...
Robert L. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith, 2009
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Law of the Internet
See Obscenity and indecency law Independent Newspapers, Inc., 11.03[B][3] India censorship in, 17.02 government supplying telecommunications infrastructure in, 17.04 Information Technology Act, 14.10[A] Indiana nexus concept in, ...
George B. Delta, 2009
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The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication
In 2001, the Commission issued a policy statement intended “to provide guidance to the broadcast industry regarding [its] caselaw interpreting [the indecency law] and [its] enforcement policies with respect to broadcast indecency .” In that ...
Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, 2013
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Public Values in Constitutional Law
Because Indiana does not record legislative history and the Indiana Supreme Court had not discussed the indecency law's objectives, only the text of the statute indicated legislators' purposes. This language was inconclusive when viewed in ...
Stephen E. Gottlieb, 1993
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Internet and Online Law
Ohio's indecency statute,91 for example, which was drafted more broadly than New York's general indecency law, was preliminarily enjoined because its definition of "harmful to juveniles" did not meet the Miller test.92 The court also noted that ...
Kent D. Stuckey, 1996
9
Not in Front of the Children: 'Indecency,' Censorship, and ...
... became a favorite cause of Senator Helms, among others, and in the highly fraught family-values politics of the 1980s, the arrival of cable television and commercial phone services only intensified efforts to expand indecency law beyond the ...
Marjorie Heins, 2007
10
Holding the Media Accountable: Citizens, Ethics, and the Law
Despite the ambiguity of the law, obscenity and indecency statutes are in force throughout the United States. This chapter examines the concrete workings of obscenity and indecency law as applied to one medium (cable access television) in ...
David Hemmings Pritchard, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDECENCY LAW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indecency law is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Khartoum court fines Christian girl over indecent dress
A Khartoum criminal court on Tuesday convicted Christian girl Rehab Omar Kakum for violating the public indecency law (article 152) and fined ... «Radio Tamazuj, Jul 15»
2
Ugandan Pop Singer Faces 10 Years in Prison Over Racy Music …
It's that vague anti-indecency law that is getting some added attention this week with the story of pop singer Jemimah Kansiime, who performs ... «Billboard, May 15»
3
Opinion: FCC finally enforcing broadcast indecency law
The Federal Communications Commission shocked the broadcast world this spring by finally deciding to enforce a federal law that prohibits ... «South Bend Tribune, May 15»
4
Dolan Springs man indicted for child porn
The previous public indecency law banned certain human contact with an animal but was only a misdemeanor unless a minor was present. T. «Mohave Valley News, Apr 15»
5
Indecency Enforcement Still Matters: FCC Slaps CBS Affiliate With …
Clearly, this was a violation of the broadcast indecency law. The FCC was right in handing down a maximum sentence to the broadcast affiliate. «Daily Caller, Mar 15»
6
FCC hits WDBJ with $325000 indecency fine
“We applaud today's announcement from the FCC that a broadcaster is being fined for violating the broadcast indecency law,” PTC President ... «GoDanRiver.com, Mar 15»
7
Police say it's legal to pose nude in doorway of home
In Georgia, like in North Carolina, the indecency law requires the nudity be in a “public place,” but I am confident prosecutors here would find a ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mar 15»
8
Alan Turing's family present petition to David Cameron
Unfortunately, four years later in 1952 Turing was to be prosecuted by the gross indecency law under the homosexuality acts, which were ... «The Mancunion, Mar 15»
9
The Alan Turing petition: No 10 hides behind "practical and legal …
She said: “I consider it to be fair and just that everybody who was convicted under the gross indecency law is given a pardon. It is illogical that ... «New Statesman, Feb 15»
10
Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49000 other men
Ms Barnes said: “I consider it to be fair and just that everybody who was convicted under the Gross Indecency law is given a pardon. «The Guardian, Feb 15»
REFERENCE
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