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bawdy

[baw-dee] / ˈbɔ di /


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When Tiedemann posted clips on social media of her whipping up seafood pastas and searing rib-eyes, she became an overnight sensation, as much for her bawdy, uninhibited personality as her culinary prowess.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's parent company, its owner and two reporters, over a report claiming Trump wrote a "bawdy" personal note to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2025

And certainly the half-hour show, created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen and starring the bawdy comedian/cabaret star Bridget Everett as Sam, can be funny as hell.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2024

The 52-year-old Manhattan, Kansas, native spent decades flying just under the mainstream radar, honing her bawdy cabaret act while waiting tables in New York, including at the still-missed Ruby Foo's.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2024

During the 1920’s, according to the history the War kids recounted from their parents, War was a wild, bawdy place of dance halls and gambling houses.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

But that’s also exactly why “Supergirl” should be bigger, bawdier and just plain better.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

The Sports didn't deal in news – just in something the net, for its sins, could do faster, bolder and bawdier in full, living colour.

From The Guardian Apr. 2, 2011

The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The $3,000,000 Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor do they wish to bowdlerize the bawdier passages reproduced in the script.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when he does, they collide with all of the same calamity found in the best, bawdiest teen soaps from the mid-aughts.

From Salon May 17, 2025

The pier, once “one of the wildest, bawdiest waterfronts on the West Coast,” was again restored to life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2024

Emcee Squared: When Joel Grey and Eddie Redmayne, who have played the Emcee several times in “Cabaret,” finally met, they discussed fear, courage and Berlin’s bawdiest nightclub.

From New York Times May 29, 2024

Just ask one of the most inventive rappers of the day, who also happens to be one of the bawdiest and the testiest — Ms. Minaj.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2014

Aided by the twinkle-toed hamming of Carol Haney and Eddie Foy Jr., The Pajama Game is eventually won by its prancing proletarians, buttons up as the season's brightest, bawdiest musical spree.

From Time Magazine Archive




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