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[ adjective ] humorously vulgar

Synonyms

ribald off-color

Examples

"bawdy songs" "off-color jokes" "ribald language"

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams , sometimes bawdy ones , or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics , or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus 's philological study of the New_Testament .

Related terms

dirty

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[ adjective ] humorously vulgar

Synonyms

ribald off-color

Examples

"bawdy songs" "off-color jokes" "ribald language"

Related terms

dirty

3
[ noun ] lewd or obscene talk or writing

Synonyms

bawdry

Examples

it was smoking-room bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"

Related terms

obscenity

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