Obscenity vs Molest - What's the difference?
obscenity | molest |
(countable) Something that is obscene.
(countable) An act of obscene behaviour.
(countable) Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
(uncountable) The qualities that make something obscene; lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour.
To annoy intentionally
To disturb or tamper with.
* Hooker
To sexually abuse, especially a minor
As a noun obscenity
is (countable) something that is obscene.As a verb molest is
to annoy intentionally.obscenity
English
Noun
(obscenities)- Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
- Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
- Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
- The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.
molest
English
(Child sexual abuse)Verb
(en verb)- They have molested the church with needless opposition.
- The woman who molested the child she was babysitting has been arrested.
