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UK
/ɹˈɔːntʃi/
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[ US /ˈɹɔntʃi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɔntʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
lewd pictures
an indecent gesture
an indecent gesture
obscene telephone calls
salacious limericks -
earthy and sexually explicit
a raunchy novel -
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
dingy linen
grubby little fingers
a grungy kitchen
a miner's begrimed face
grimy hands
How To Use raunchy In A Sentence
- Then, invariably, Grandmommy the non-stop quoter of scripture would suddenly begin telling dirty jokes -- so filthy that my raunchy mother would gasp and I often didn't understand the punchline. Archive 2008-12-01
- We have received certain representations from the British homosexual community, but after due consideration we have taken the view that British fags are a raunchy little group of pagans, bastards, eunuchs, and insurgents and God hates them all and the whole of the UK too," a spokesman for the WBC said yesterday. Archive 2007-06-01
- Oh well, I have special permission to be raunchy because I'm sick and I feel like barfing.
- Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede. Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism
- Their stage act is a little too raunchy for television.
- ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife,’ announced the first lady, referring to the raunchy TV sitcom oozing with sex-starved housewives on ABC these days.
- You can't help but bob your shoulders and sway your hips to the raunchy jazz in this number!
- Never has such potentially raunchy role-playing seemed like such good clean fun.
- As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
- But Hefner says he does not resent upstarts that made his once raunchy publication look tame.