raunchiness

Example Sentences

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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to be a nonstarter for the timid broadcast networks that were television in 1972.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Between the way Ryan exaggeratedly flounces about and the blunt deliberate emphasis on her character's cool raunchiness, Katherine is about as trying as they come.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2020

There are hundreds of retailers that stock ugly sweaters now, with varying degrees of raunchiness.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2019

The glory of “Pitch Perfect” is that it’s devoted, above all, to the friendship and shared ambition of young women, and that it finds plenty of room within that premise for raunchiness, ridiculousness and warmth.

From New York Times • May 14, 2015