public decency

Something like that might be regarded as an offense against public decency.

She managed to move maybe an inch, making it a small triumph for public decency.

No, but it is the police's duty to uphold public decency and other laws.

A side order was a charge of 'conspiring to outrage public decency'.

That reflects a community's disgust, and fear, about a continuing assault on public decency.

Wearing swimsuits away from the beach may get you arrested under public decency laws.

In cases where the marriage is consummated, public decency gives way to affinity.

By extension, the mayor has the right to close down an art exhibit if it offends his sense of public decency.

This was the first occasion on which a charge of outraging public decency had been preferred in over 80 years.

On 12 February 1987, investigators arrested a new suspect for "outraging public decency."

The club was tried and convicted for "outrage to public decency" but later successfully appealed the conviction.

But the conviction raises the question: Does public decency outweigh a man's uncivil rights?

We could have been found frozen in a posture judged to be an affront to public decency."

Holding hands for married couples is tolerated but kissing and hugging are considered offences against public decency.

And the latest hullabaloo has divided the nation along lines of public decency and personal taste.

Actress Kushboo was accused of outraging public decency and 22 cases were filed against her in 2005.

Outraging public decency is a common law offence in England and Wales.

A third category which existed at the time of the 1977 Act, "conspiracy to outrage public decency", has now become a statutory offence.

The charge was "offense of public decency".

The student pleaded guilty to outraging public decency.

Conspiracy to outrage public decency is an offense under the common law of England and Wales.

The pictures will then be doctored and circulated to show him as a depraved enemy of public decency.

And finally the judge presiding over the case prohibited any written or broadcast news about the proceedings, arguing that questions of "public decency" were involved.

He admitted a charge of outraging public decency, but claimed to have no memory of his actions.