bawdry

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Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven.

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In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge.

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The show evolves in play-within-a-play fashion from an opening square dance, and the book, lyrics, music and choreography mesh delightfully to create the mood of innocent bawdry and rustic high jinks.

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He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.

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He with the red hair is Guy Tabarie; they are sworn brothers in bawdry and larceny.

From If I Were King by McCarthy, Justin