raunch
Example Sentences
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If Hulu’s “Shoresy” is the poster child for successfully balancing raunch and heart, “Ted” is on the opposite end — crass and lazy.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026
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.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2025
Not to slight Hill, who co-produced the film and co-wrote the sharp, occasionally bloodletting screenplay with Barris, but, raunch aside, the film mostly has one man’s fingerprints all over it.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023
Writer-actor-director Harold Ramis believes that the clean-talking, gross-free “Ghostbusters” may break forever the reign of raunch that has plagued youth comedy since “Animal House.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021
Hulu’s “The Mindy Project” embraces movie myths while dismantling them, FXX’s “You’re the Worst” explores the chemistry of self-destructiveness, Amazon’s “Catastrophe” is a variation on the gimlet-eyed raunch of Mr. Apatow’s movies.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2016
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
