bawdy

Example Sentences

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Will Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Pulitzer-winning “Purpose” win best play over comedian Cole Escola’s bawdy “Oh, Mary!”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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

Cue a medley of exquisite tomfoolery, featuring bawdy badinage, dubious love-poems, mistaken identity, visual gags, a chaotic play-within-a-play and lots of linguistic whimsy.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

He beat his fist against his palm and railed against a bloody, bawdy villain—Claudius, no doubt.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein