risqué
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Islanders had to follow a dress code, and risqué challenges were off the table, said ITV America Chief Executive David George.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
There are a lot fewer neon-drenched skyscrapers and risqué robots than we were promised, but a quarter of the way through the 21st century, we are indeed essentially living inside a cyberpunk dystopia.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
On the 12-track album, which dropped Friday to mixed critical reception, Swift is uncharacteristically risqué and, for possibly the first time, indulges her inner theater kid without reservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
She describes Chappell as a "larger-than-life, drag queen version of myself", who allows her to be rebellious and risqué.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
But the abbot, although generally tolerant of Mendel’s whims, had intervened: a monk coaxing mice to mate to understand heredity was a little too risqué, even for the Augustinians.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
He praises the "deft deployment of slightly risque jokes" as well as a Bridgerton spoof starring Miss Piggy, saying it's a "return to basics, and all the more joyous for it".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
At the Boulevard Riyadh, the quasi-world fair, women in black niqabs joined more colorfully attired attendees in enjoying music acts that would have been deemed impossibly risque a few years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
Tinted nail polish was developed in the mid-1920s, and “it was a pretty risque statement at the time,” Shapiro says.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
“Behind Closed Doors” was a bit risque in the country music world, but a lyric of the song is so true in what should be a transparent world, the world where taxpayer business is conducted.
From Washington Times ● May 5, 2021
Then, as to the intimacy of his connexions with this neighbourhood, you must remember that, if that exposes him to some risque, he is also indebted to it for much kindness and assistance.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by De Quincey, Thomas
