ribaldry

Example Sentences

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Awkward bits of brotherly rivalry or ribaldry go on for far, far too long, and any vitality is strangely subdued and muted.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2017

“There is a very deeply embedded folk culture in the UK of public ribaldry, extreme sarcasm, facetiousness – in other words, of laddishness,” says Tony Thorne, a linguist and cultural historian.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2017

That was apparently also just more mischievous ribaldry from Donald “Lenny Bruce Reincarnated” Trump.

From Slate • May 25, 2017

Maupassant brings it out from behind the curtain with a brazenness that spans café-table ribaldry and biological tragedy, whispered refinements and violent obsessions.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2015

The sight of him crouched in the shade with reddened face and streaming eyes evoked from his companions not pity but ribaldry.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya