bawdry

How To Use bawdry In A Sentence

• Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration. 1601
• It was the red thread of life and love, blood-color -- blood-maker, blood-spiller, heart-quickener, heart-sickener, the red thread of romance, of motherhood and of lust, birth and murder, family and bawdry. We Can't Have Everything
• It is no accident that the end of Restoration bawdry coincided precisely with the fullest flowering of literary sadism in England. 24 « August « 2007 « Jahsonic
• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
• Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour.
• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
• And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal. A Renegade History of the United States
• This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic.
• it was smoking-room bawdry
• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman