1RUDE/OBSCENEsomething that is indecent is shocking and offensive, usually because it involves sex or shows parts of the body that are usually covered 下流的,猥亵的
He was found guilty of possessing indecent photographs.
他被判藏有淫秽照片罪。
You can’t go out in that dress – it’s positively indecent!
The funeral formalities were performed with almost indecent haste.
葬礼草草了事,几乎不成体统。
—indecentlyadverbadv
an indecently short skirt
短得不成样子的裙子
Examples from the Corpus
indecent• The prices they charge for this food are indecent.• You can't wear that dress to the dinner party -- it's positively indecent!• It is an offence under railway bye-laws to be disorderly, offensive or indecent in a station.• It is still an offence to use obscene, profane or indecentlanguage in an Aberdeen street.• Woodall said the man also took an indecentphoto of the child.• Models were forced into all sorts of indecentposes for the camera.• It was indecent, surely, to stand like this, in public, and feel so alive and so excited?• Second, where right-mindedobservers would agree that the conduct was indecent, that would be an indecent assault.• Nearly all their offerings are considered indecent under the 1996 law.
indecent haste• No hurry: no indecent haste.• The boundaries make sense, but there is an air of indecent haste about the timetables.