raunchy
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OK, so all of that’s totally true, but “Kevin” is mostly a silly, raunchy animated series with a star-studded comedy cast about talking animals and their escapades in a life generally free of human owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The film wasn’t poking fun at gay men, nor was it particularly raunchy.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2025
Jiggly’s time on “Drag Race” had a rocky start but she earned a reputation for her raunchy humor and dynamic dance moves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Since 2007, the comedian, actress and musician has performed as one half of Garfunkel and Oates, a raunchy comedy duo also starring Kate Micucci.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
How could he leave me in that raunchy bar and go off with his woman?
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
The protagonists of those shows and raunchier offshoots like “Bachelor in Paradise” often found their social followings shooting up into the millions, jump-starting careers or side hustles pitching vitamin gummies or meal kits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
RuPaul's show also made drag into a family-friendly entertainment, at least when it gets stripped of some of the raunchier humor.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
Orr dismissed comparisons between “Ticket to Paradise” and “Bros,” pointing out that the two films — one a breezy PG-13 confection, the other a more provocative and infinitely raunchier R-rated film — are wildly different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
That means it’s probably within the PG-13 guidelines, and therefore more similar to High School Musical: The Musical: The Series than Hulu’s raunchier shows based around teen characters, like PEN15.
From The Verge ● Feb. 25, 2020
If the show set up Laverne as the “tough” half of the partnership — pushy, blunt, with a raunchier sense of humor — there was always the sense that she had her reasons.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
New producer Jimmy Miller helps strip the band down to its rawest, raunchiest essence on songs like “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Stray Cat Blues,” and “Street Fighting Man.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s a bit of a headscratcher how a bunch of descendants of Puritans in a New England state ended up putting some of the raunchiest messages on state-issued license plates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Easily the raunchiest Confederate relic north of the Cotton Belt is Maryland’s never-in-mode state song, “Maryland, My Maryland.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2021
Plautus never got back to me with statutory citations but his characterization of my posts did inspire a piece that I had some fun with mourning the Disneyfication of the raunchiest block in America.
From Forbes ● May 30, 2012
Reading crime novels in mixed company, now that some of the toughest and raunchiest fictional cops, detectives and villains are women, has become a delicate exercise in sexual politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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