connected with sex in a way that most people find offensive 淫秽的；猥亵的；下流的 obscene gestures/language/books 淫秽的姿势／语言／书籍 an obscene phone call (= in which somebody says obscene things) 色情骚扰电话 The book was declared obscene. 这本书被宣布为淫秽书刊。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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- something obscene
extremely large in size or amount in a way that most people find unacceptable and offensive （数量等）大得惊人的，骇人听闻的
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French obscène or Latin obscaenus ‘ill-omened or abominable’.