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Examples of bawdry
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Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat.
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Restoration comedy is famous for its bawdry, but its bounty can be a trifle daunting.
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Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental.
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A twinkling piece of innocent bawdry has come to Broadway.
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In key roles, Donald Sinden and Rachel Roberts convey randy frustration and purvey music hall bawdry.
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The chorus boys'codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry.
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He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.
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Brimming over with scandal, intrigue, and all-out bawdry, this humorous adaptation of TOM JONES puts true love to the test.
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He gave bawdry rare class.
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- Lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
- Ribaldry is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to gross indecency. It is a genre of sexual entertainment, in addition to pornography and erotica. It is also referred to as "bawdiness", "gaminess" or "bawdry".
- The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust; Illicit intercourse; fornication; Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language
