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bawdy

/baw-dee/US // ˈbɔ di //UK // (ˈbɔːdɪ) //

淫荡的,淫秽的,淫秽,粗俗的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est.

    • : indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy.

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Examples

  • Starring Dev Patel, The Green Knight is a swashbuckling tale of adventure, to be sure — but it feels dragged out of the mists of time, uncanny spirits and a touch of the rude and bawdy still clinging to the edges.

  • Warren’s bawdy comedy was tame by the profanity-laced standards of today, but it was considered so outrageous for its time — especially coming from a woman — that she was effectively banned from television and radio.

  • 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.