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raunch
noun as in obscenity
Strong matches
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirt
- dirtiness
- evil
- filth
- filthiness
- foulness
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- prurience
- ribaldry
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- wrong
Example Sentences
He’s always taken an opposing approach from Maron, purveying raunch instead of raw honesty, channeling swagger, shock and dismissiveness as opposed to connection and intimacy.
That sort of tongue-in-cheek raunch has been a hallmark of Usher's career, but it felt dated and shallow in a concert that promised an intimate look into his personality.
Or worse, they dabbled in a spectacle of degradation—raunch culture epitomized by "Girls Gone Wild"—that was bizarrely packaged as liberation.
“Babes” has plenty of raunch, but it’s otherwise very different.
On his website, Majewski has called the GOP "raunch with lifetime politicians who are spineless and seek to serve themselves and the members of their exclusive 'club.'"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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