risqué
Example Sentences
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Disorderly in its construction, “Tristram Shandy” is ribald and risqué in its content, yet charitable and affecting in tone.
“It was a low-budget movie that to some people may be a bit risqué and it’s by a first-time filmmaker. I get that it’s not necessarily a slam dunk from the industry’s point of view. But it was tremendously exciting.”
From Los Angeles Times
He praises the "deft deployment of slightly risque jokes" as well as a Bridgerton spoof starring Miss Piggy, saying it's a "return to basics, and all the more joyous for it".
From BBC
In an interview with the BBC's Mark Savage in 2024, she described Chappell as a "larger-than-life, drag queen version of myself", who allows her to be rebellious and risqué.
From BBC
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
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