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Indecent vs Obnoxious - What's the difference?

indecent | obnoxious |

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)
  • offensive to good taste
  • not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

    • Synonyms

    * (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemly

    Anagrams

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    obnoxious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * obnoctious (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
    • He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
    Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
  • (archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
  • * 1661 , , page 26,
    • To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.