raunchiness

Example Sentences

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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Between the way Ryan exaggeratedly flounces about and the blunt deliberate emphasis on her character's cool raunchiness, Katherine is about as trying as they come.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2020

The glory of “Pitch Perfect” is that it’s devoted, above all, to the friendship and shared ambition of young women, and that it finds plenty of room within that premise for raunchiness, ridiculousness and warmth.

From New York Times • May 14, 2015

Lucas and Moore try to balance the raunchiness with reality, as the friends struggle to figure out what to do with their lives once the buzz - and college - are over.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2013

Katy Perry As pop singers from Gaga to Miley embrace self-conscious artiness and unabashed raunchiness, Perry has stuck to the formula that made her a star: being the human equivalent of cotton candy.

From Washington Post