bawdry

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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

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.

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Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven.

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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.

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 McCarthy, Justin