Obscene /(?)/

Ob·scene

Obscene

a.
  1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
    Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly.
  2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
    A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
    — Dryden (Aeneid, vi. 417).
  3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.]
    At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.