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

It’s weird, confusing and kind of dorky phenomenon, one that is unexpectedly captured by “Big Mouth” in all its raunchiness.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2019

The Lennon raunchiness has become mere caprice in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

Their newest ad, a 3-minute spot scheduled to air Sunday on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on Sunday, attempts to dial back the raunchiness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017