bawdiness

Example Sentences

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He had a spectacular presence in every public appearance: eye-popping outfits, hip-shaking bawdiness, sly banter and a wild-eyed unpredictability that was fully under his control.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

There’s enough pettiness, cruelty, bawdiness and perversity to turn it into whatever the opposite of Academy catnip is, making its 10 nominations seem like a win already.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2019

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

His bawdiness was harmless; his harmlessness was often icky.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2014