racy
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“The Idol” was as racy as “Euphoria” but rife with creative issues as the original director left and Levinson took over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
And even the racy headline GDP growth rate was below many assumptions of a 5%-plus print.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2023
He quickly expanded the business, buying a string of other titles in Australia and New Zealand and growing their circulation by employing racy tabloid techniques he'd picked up in the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
R&B star Ashanti finally addressed racy remarks made by estranged Murder Inc. producer Irv Gotti, who said they dated and who spent years discrediting her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Designers such as Loewe showed their racier side at fashion week - think stretchy materials and big brand logos that wouldn't look out of place on your favourite athlete.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
Their work also embodies a kind of Year Zero thinking that we find foolish in the case of Victorians slicing off the racier bits of Shakespeare.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
While the racier pastimes of stuffing tigers or describing plant genitalia were off-limits to the “gentler sex”, it was socially acceptable for women to go “seaweeding”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2020
He was touched that she gave him half of her lunch, and that she lent him books, although he had racier tastes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
As a satire on the old Hellenic religion nothing could be racier than The Dialogues of the Gods and The Dialogues of the Dead.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Prince had become a Jehovah’s Witness around 2001, and had stopped playing his raciest hits.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019
The raciest bets that foreigners have made are on the bonds of policy banks, such as the China Development Bank, and on short-term paper issued by biggish provincial banks.
From Economist ● Jun. 28, 2018
This book of Esther reads like the breeziest, raciest fiction, and some of it may be just that.
From Time ● Jun. 13, 2013
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images An Italian news bulletin on a network owned by disgraced former prime minister Silvio Berluconi has chided the Venice film festival for putting on its raciest lineup in many years.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
And I say, Black Mary straight up and then I get to laughing at myself, setting in my kitchen having this daydream, cause the raciest thing I ever take is the purple Nehi.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
