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
ABC as a broadcast network is held to higher standard than it's streaming partner Hulu due to oversight by the federal regulator and advertisers, who may be skittish when it comes to racy programming.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
And even the racy headline GDP growth rate was below many assumptions of a 5%-plus print.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 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
Federal officials ruled in 2021 that some of the racier messages displayed — referring to them as “unconventional syntax” — were inconsistent with standards in the manual and could present a safety risk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
But he was much racier on film than on stage.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
He is also working on a second novel, featuring the fictional jockey Duncan Claymore, whose racier antics are said to have been inspired by dual Grand National-winning rider Carl Llewellyn.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2015
In Mr. Hudson, also, the quality has an individual character, and is the racier from its genuineness and from its root in his intellectual constitution.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
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
