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deprave and corrupt
Coverage of deprave and corrupt in the Nexus archive.
- Supreme Court holds abuse is uncivil, but not obscene
The Supreme Court ruled in a land dispute case that the use of a four-letter expletive does not constitute obscenity. The court clarified that for terms to qualify as 'obscenity,' they must be lascivious, appeal to prurient interests, and provoke a tendency to deprave and corrupt people's minds.