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Indecent vs Undecent - What's the difference?

indecent | undecent |

As adjectives the difference between indecent and undecent

is that indecent is offensive to good taste while undecent is not decent; indecent.

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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    undecent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not decent; indecent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1801, author=Daniel Defoe, title=The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Conversation is immoral, where the discourse is undecent , immodest, scandalous, slanderous, and abusive. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, title=An English Garner, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Such usage is very undecent from one Gentleman to another, and does not at all contribute to the discovery of Truth, which ought to be the great End in all disputes of the Learned. }}