bawdry
Example Sentences
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He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.
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
The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Nothing but downright bawdry: Sirrah, rascal, Is this an age for ribaldry in verse; When every gentleman in town speaks it With so much better grace, than thou canst write it?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
