bawdiness
Example Sentences
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Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It's this lineage of comedy that Mrs Brown's Boys taps into, one that survives in Christmas pantomimes, with its end-of-the-pier bawdiness, underpinned by a pervading whiff of sentimentality.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2018
Lights were only added in 1988, and even then neighborhood concerns about the bedlam and bawdiness that night games might bring meant that the Cubs still played most days under the hot afternoon sun.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016
The play is a characteristically Beckettian mix of bawdiness, comedy and tragedy.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2012
It was Jumbo’s arrival from London in 1882, Dr. Wittmann said, that turned the circus into family entertainment; before that its rowdy bawdiness attracted mostly men.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012
