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

And yet they are all still very much boys: In a scene when El enters her psychic space to spy on them, they aren’t above cracking farts and giggling at their raunchiness.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2019

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

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

Katy Perry As pop singers from Gaga to Miley embrace self-conscious artiness and unabashed raunchiness, Perry has stuck to the formula that made her a star: being the human equivalent of cotton candy.

From Washington Post