bawdy

The White House domestic-policy advisor, Margaret Spellings—whom Karl Rove praises in the book as “the master of the short bawdy joke”—emerges as an acid-tongued score-settler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Allison’s Angélique is just as much a standout, renewing the bawdy earthiness of Shakespeare’s nurse with contemporary sass and rousing singing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

A Sunday People poll of 600 viewers showed 56% of respondents didn't like the first episode, with complaints over "coarse" and "bawdy" dialogue.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

The 52-year-old Manhattan, Kansas, native spent decades flying just under the mainstream radar, honing her bawdy cabaret act while waiting tables in New York, including at the still-missed Ruby Foo's.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2024

During the 1920’s, according to the history the War kids recounted from their parents, War was a wild, bawdy place of dance halls and gambling houses.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

But that’s also exactly why “Supergirl” should be bigger, bawdier and just plain better.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The Sports didn't deal in news – just in something the net, for its sins, could do faster, bolder and bawdier in full, living colour.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

The $3,000,000 Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor do they wish to bowdlerize the bawdier passages reproduced in the script.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when he does, they collide with all of the same calamity found in the best, bawdiest teen soaps from the mid-aughts.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

The pier, once “one of the wildest, bawdiest waterfronts on the West Coast,” was again restored to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

Emcee Squared: When Joel Grey and Eddie Redmayne, who have played the Emcee several times in “Cabaret,” finally met, they discussed fear, courage and Berlin’s bawdiest nightclub.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

Just ask one of the most inventive rappers of the day, who also happens to be one of the bawdiest and the testiest — Ms. Minaj.

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2014

He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder.

From Time Magazine Archive