bawdiness

Example Sentences

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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

Stewart and Snoop’s new show channels the bawdiness of her roast performance, but, perhaps not surprisingly, the dual-fish-out-of-water premise is probably too much of a gimmick to sustain a series.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016

His bawdiness was harmless; his harmlessness was often icky.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2014

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