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 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

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