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racy

[ray-see] / ˈreɪ si /




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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

And even the racy headline GDP growth rate was below many assumptions of a 5%-plus print.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2023

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

This, I knew, was the racy name given to Atlanta, Georgia.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

While the racier pastimes of stuffing tigers or describing plant genitalia were off-limits to the “gentler sex”, it was socially acceptable for women to go “seaweeding”.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2020

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

In Mr. Hudson, also, the quality has an individual character, and is the racier from its genuineness and from its root in his intellectual constitution.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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




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