Indecent vs Obnoxious - What's the difference?
indecent | obnoxious |
offensive to good taste
not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
* 1661 , , page 26,
As adjectives the difference between indecent and obnoxious
is that indecent is indecent while obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.indecent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemlyAnagrams
*obnoxious
English
Alternative forms
* obnoctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.