bawdry

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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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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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The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted.

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Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental.

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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