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Obscene

Invented in Love's Labour's Lost

Then
for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter
that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth
from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which


Obscene originally meant offensive to one of the senses (i.e., sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch), so it's easy to see how it morphed to mean anything that's offensive—even to your morals.


Tag: Love's Labour's Lost

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