Obscene vs Unappropriate - What's the difference?
obscene | unappropriate |
Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
Lewd or lustful
Disgusting or repulsive
Beyond all reason
Liable to deprave or corrupt
To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.
Inappropriate; unsuitable.
(obsolete) Not appropriated.
As adjectives the difference between obscene and unappropriate
is that obscene is obscene while unappropriate is inappropriate; unsuitable.As a verb unappropriate is
to take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.obscene
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* The comparative obscener and superlative obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene' and ' most obscene .unappropriate
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Verb
(unappropriat)- to unappropriate a monopoly
- (Milton)
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Warburton)