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bawdy
adjective as in vulgar, dirty
Example Sentences
More than bawdy, though, The Ball adds a familiar unpretentiousness to trendy locales like Tao, Lavo, The Park, and Dream Hotel.
Note the bawdy pun in the first example, by which the speaker implies that she came last night.
Nevertheless, the ARTPOP singer unleashed a decidedly non-corporate show that was equal parts bawdy and bizarre.
Never one to mince her words, Leakes is as bawdy as they get on reality television.
The bawdy jokes that followed may have helped a politician who looks like he was born in a suit.
Four engravings and at least six pamphlets, all focusing on the bawdy house story, were shortly in circulation.
Eight men marched one evening into Llanyglo, bawling a bawdy chorus, with Sam Kerr showing the way.
I ha lost by her squeamishness, more than would have builded twelve bawdy-houses.
"That was Belle Cora, who keeps that bawdy house up town," Nesbitt volunteered.
A riotous twenty years in night saloons and bawdy houses had left him a kindly, choleric, and respected newspaper figure.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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