[
US
/ˈbɔdi/
]
[ UK /bˈɔːdi/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔːdi/ ]
NOUN
-
lewd or obscene talk or writing
it was smoking-room bawdry
they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
ADJECTIVE
-
humorously vulgar
bawdy songs
ribald language
off-color jokes
How To Use bawdy In A Sentence
- At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
- Comedy, tragedy, love, death, the spiritual and the bawdy are all represented.
- From time-to-time, an unevenness in tone is evident, as the movie swerves between bawdy farce and melodrama.
- More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
- Their bawdy exploits were commented on by Howerd during asides, complete with awful puns, in a pastiche of the traditional Greek chorus.
- There is plenty of Shakespeare's bawdy humour too and the sexual innuendoes come thick and fast.
- A few women inspect a gender to be bawdy and feculent content, be in a gender for a long time to check status, also can weaken the sexual desire of oneself greatly.
- Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
- Check every bawdy house, bagnio, Blind Tiger, and frab-joint in the city. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
- In orange and green spray paint that seems almost subtle next to the luminous signatures and bawdy slogans, a simple piece of graffiti is etched onto the wall of the off-license on a Hull estate.