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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang : raunchy. See DECENT. 2. Beyond all reason: outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, shocking, unconscionable, unreasonable. Idioms: out of bounds, out of sight. See USUAL.
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