risque
Example Sentences
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She later explained to me that she became “infatuated” with him after their interview, that she couldn’t get him out of her head, and that as her obsession intensified, she sent him increasingly risqué pictures and texts, secretly followed him on the campaign trail when she told me she was out covering other candidates, and fantasized about a rendezvous, which was consummated at his home in South Carolina one night.
From Slate
Premiering Monday on Paramount+, it’s a cousin, in textual and corporate terms, to the CBS sitcom “The Neighborhood,” from which it has been spun off, and though it includes some words you can’t say on broadcast TV and has a streaming-length, eight-episode season, it’s for all intents and purposes a network sitcom — good-hearted, familial and even less risqué than most.
From Los Angeles Times
The risque, shirtless music video for the latter track catapulted the artist to superstardom, though he struggled with the weight of his newfound pop culture fame.
From Barron's
Still, it was a risqué bathtub scene that got him the most notice.
On the 12-track album, which dropped Friday to mixed critical reception, Swift is uncharacteristically risqué and, for possibly the first time, indulges her inner theater kid without reservation.
From Los Angeles Times
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