noun

Obscenity in speech or writing.

a tale of unedifying bawdry

indecency,immorality,impropriety,salaciousness,smuttiness,smut,lewdness,rudeness,vulgarity,dirtiness,dirt,filthiness,filth,foulness,coarseness,crudeness,grossness,vileness,nastiness,impurity,immodesty,indelicacy,indecorousness,unwholesomeness,scabrousness,ribaldry,bawdiness,suggestiveness,eroticism,carnality,lasciviousness,lechery,licentiousness,libidinousness,degeneracy,depravity,amorality,debauchery,dissoluteness,prurience