ribaldry
Example Sentences
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That bearing puts Mr. Williams, a poet, roughly in common with David Murray, the eminent tenor saxophonist whose warbling style is equal parts ribaldry and pique.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Awkward bits of brotherly rivalry or ribaldry go on for far, far too long, and any vitality is strangely subdued and muted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
That was apparently also just more mischievous ribaldry from Donald “Lenny Bruce Reincarnated” Trump.
From Slate ● May 25, 2017
Maupassant brings it out from behind the curtain with a brazenness that spans café-table ribaldry and biological tragedy, whispered refinements and violent obsessions.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2015
The sight of him crouched in the shade with reddened face and streaming eyes evoked from his companions not pity but ribaldry.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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