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The following was removed from the article, because Wikipedia is not a dictionary:

It is defined by the public domain 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary as:

Obscene: (adjective)
Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
Inauspicious; ill-omened.

Wikipedia may not be a dictionary, but there is nothing wrong with including a definition within an article! Ortolan88

Indeed, Wikipedia articles should begin with a good defintion. Ideally it should be written as a plain English prose sentence, and not contain dictionary-only stuff like parts of speech, extraneous senses, old usage citations, and such. --LDC

Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so a sentence copied and pasted tel-quel from a dictionary, with or without the mention of the source, sounded little elegant to me, unappropriated. Of course, that content can still be included, if coherent, in the article; we should try to explain the concept and not the word. --Gianfranco

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