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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In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge.

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In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart.

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It's movie analysis with a serrated edge; film criticism as stand-up bawdry; intellectual improvisation that soars into the highest form of word jazz.

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He also weakened his argument by finding bawdry where there was none, overlooking the many unquestionably off-color passages in the Restoration plays.

From A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) by Anonymous