Nice
Nice adjective - Following the established traditions of refined society and good taste.
Obscene
Obscene adjective - Depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society.
Usage example: obscene gestures are totally inappropriate in the workplace
Both words in one sentence
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Unreliable Narrator: "The town saloon was always lively/But never nasty or obscene/behind the bar stood Anal Johnson/He always kept things nice and clean".
Source: Film / Blazing Saddles - Variation in The Eyre Affair: Thursday and her brother are speaking to an elderly and mostly deaf woman, and when Thursday realizes this she and her brother start saying increasingly obscene things about each other, to absolutely no reaction other than "that's nice, dear."
Source: Not Listening to Me, Are You?
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Obscene and Nice. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nice/obscene
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