bawdiness

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• Starring Dev Patel, The Green Knight is a swashbuckling tale of adventure, to be sure — but it feels dragged out of the mists of time, uncanny spirits and a touch of the rude and bawdy still clinging to the edges.

• Warren’s bawdy comedy was tame by the profanity-laced standards of today, but it was considered so outrageous for its time — especially coming from a woman — that she was effectively banned from television and radio.

• More than bawdy, though, The Ball adds a familiar unpretentiousness to trendy locales like Tao, Lavo, The Park, and Dream Hotel.

• Note the bawdy pun in the first example, by which the speaker implies that she came last night.

• Nevertheless, the ARTPOP singer unleashed a decidedly non-corporate show that was equal parts bawdy and bizarre.

• Never one to mince her words, Leakes is as bawdy as they get on reality television.

• The bawdy jokes that followed may have helped a politician who looks like he was born in a suit.

• Four engravings and at least six pamphlets, all focusing on the bawdy house story, were shortly in circulation.

• Eight men marched one evening into Llanyglo, bawling a bawdy chorus, with Sam Kerr showing the way.

• I ha lost by her squeamishness, more than would have builded twelve bawdy-houses.

• "That was Belle Cora, who keeps that bawdy house up town," Nesbitt volunteered.

• A riotous twenty years in night saloons and bawdy houses had left him a kindly, choleric, and respected newspaper figure.