bawdiness
Example Sentences
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Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He had a spectacular presence in every public appearance: eye-popping outfits, hip-shaking bawdiness, sly banter and a wild-eyed unpredictability that was fully under his control.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2020
It's this lineage of comedy that Mrs Brown's Boys taps into, one that survives in Christmas pantomimes, with its end-of-the-pier bawdiness, underpinned by a pervading whiff of sentimentality.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2018
In this classic, Ronnie Lane channelled his bawdiness in a very English way in his own writing, which is Berryish musically, too.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2017
Stewart and Snoop’s new show channels the bawdiness of her roast performance, but, perhaps not surprisingly, the dual-fish-out-of-water premise is probably too much of a gimmick to sustain a series.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2016
