bawdry
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Psychoanalysis, sociology, literary history, bawdry, biology, whatnot, all chip in to make Auden's poems: Rummaging into his living, the poet fetches The images out that hurt and connect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental.
From Time Magazine Archive
The show evolves in play-within-a-play fashion from an opening square dance, and the book, lyrics, music and choreography mesh delightfully to create the mood of innocent bawdry and rustic high jinks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.
From Time Magazine Archive
He with the red hair is Guy Tabarie; they are sworn brothers in bawdry and larceny.
From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy
