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US
/ˈɹeɪsi/
]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪsi/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪsi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by richness and fullness of flavor
a rich ruby port
full-bodied wines
the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee
a robust claret -
suggestive of sexual impropriety
naughty words
a juicy scandal
a blue movie
spicy gossip
he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
a risque story
blue jokes
a naughty wink
racy anecdotes -
full of zest or vigor
a racy literary style - designed or suitable for competing in a race
How To Use racy In A Sentence
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps they will dub it the age of unreason, petty bureaucracy and utter silliness. Times, Sunday Times
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
- This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Bachofen was the first to discuss under the name of gyneocracy and mother-right. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
- In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
- The BBC correspondent says anti - piracy mission is controversial in Japan because of its pacifist post - War constitution.
- These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
- In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
- Since when did the US become an official plutocracy?
