racy
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“The Idol” was as racy as “Euphoria” but rife with creative issues as the original director left and Levinson took over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
He quickly expanded the business, buying a string of other titles in Australia and New Zealand and growing their circulation by employing racy tabloid techniques he'd picked up in the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
R&B star Ashanti finally addressed racy remarks made by estranged Murder Inc. producer Irv Gotti, who said they dated and who spent years discrediting her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
Garlic and Thai chiles in the seasoning give each bite a racy edge.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
But he was much racier on film than on stage.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
He was touched that she gave him half of her lunch, and that she lent him books, although he had racier tastes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
Vitter’s aides said the legislation has been tweaked to make clear that the new rules address “fully enclosed” vehicles, meaning the Elio and not its racier cousins.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2015
He is also working on a second novel, featuring the fictional jockey Duncan Claymore, whose racier antics are said to have been inspired by dual Grand National-winning rider Carl Llewellyn.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2015
For "to be ready for whatever may turn up" is Thoreau's racier, homelier version of Emerson's "endless seeker"; and Thoreau, more easily than Emerson, could venture to stake everything upon the quest.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss
Prince had become a Jehovah’s Witness around 2001, and had stopped playing his raciest hits.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019
The raciest bets that foreigners have made are on the bonds of policy banks, such as the China Development Bank, and on short-term paper issued by biggish provincial banks.
From Economist ● Jun. 28, 2018
This book of Esther reads like the breeziest, raciest fiction, and some of it may be just that.
From Time ● Jun. 13, 2013
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images An Italian news bulletin on a network owned by disgraced former prime minister Silvio Berluconi has chided the Venice film festival for putting on its raciest lineup in many years.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
And I say, Black Mary straight up and then I get to laughing at myself, setting in my kitchen having this daydream, cause the raciest thing I ever take is the purple Nehi.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
