risqué

The “expectant widow” line was a morbid, vaguely risqué gag, the kind of joke that has been standard fare at the Correspondents’ Dinner and roasts for decades.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

Disorderly in its construction, “Tristram Shandy” is ribald and risqué in its content, yet charitable and affecting in tone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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

Top Gear achieved a certain alchemy thanks to the personalities who fronted it - and the fact it was broadcast by the BBC made their risqué approach more thrilling.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

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

“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

And the music is, indeed, kid-friendly: All remotely risque lyrics are changed to something more, some would say, appropriate.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

For, ought an innocent man to run an equal risque with a guilty one?—

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson