ribald

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Ribald Radicals laughed loudly at this way of putting it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

See you not, Sir Ribald, that my right arm is disabled, swathed, and bandaged, so that I cannot help myself better than a baby?

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Ribald ruffian," she had once said of him; "but that he thinks his priestly rags protect him, he would not have dared to insult me."

From Miss Mackenzie by Trollope, Anthony

The Norman keep dates from the year 1190, when Robert Fitz Randolph, grandson of Ribald, a brother of the Earl of Richmond, began to build the Castle.

From Yorkshire by Home, Gordon

You remember, Mylio, the words of Sir Ribald when he told you he meant to make a speedy call at the mill of Chaillotte?

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène