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ribaldry
noun as in obscenity
Strong matches
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- bawdry
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirt
- dirtiness
- evil
- filth
- filthiness
- foulness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- wrong
Example Sentences
“This Paramount color release is worth seeing,” Thompson added, “if only for the casual, saddle-sore expertise and ribaldry” of Wayne and Mitchum, whom he referred to as “these two leathery dudes.”
His endnotes point to its undercurrent of ribaldry and double-entendre, and he argues for Verne as artistically innovative in his use of temporal shifts, elisions and flashbacks.
The sight of him crouched in the shade with reddened face and streaming eyes evoked from his companions not pity but ribaldry.
How much more thrilling would the 2012 Olympics have been had there been a place within them for gluttony, revelry and ribaldry?
Just before his arrest, Tray unknowingly impregnated his girlfriend, Shay, played by Tiffany Haddish, best known for the torrent of ribaldry that she brought to the movie “Girls Trip.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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