risque

Example Sentences

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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

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

Films and web shows routinely deal with risqué topics; and conversations around women's clothes and beauty standards have become more nuanced.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

Do you feel like audience reception to more risqué jokes has changed in recent years?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 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