How To Use Ribald In A Sentence

  • He is then heard of as plotting with Garibaldi in Italy, as secretary of a legation in Japan, and in other parts of the world.
  • ‘Feminists on Men’ contains more ribald japery about men being stupid.
  • Official Bob Garibaldi signaled for a 3-pointer, but after a discussion the basket was correctly changed to a 2-pointer.
  • As previously mentioned, this bright coloring is a warning to some fish that may attempt to approach or challenge the Garibaldi.
  • It also gained the distinction of being banned in America - presumably because of all those obscene, ribald, raunchy bits about marriage being a partnership of equals.
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  • As previously mentioned, this bright coloring is a warning to some fish that may attempt to approach or challenge the Garibaldi.
  • But for the most part, the second half of All the World's a Stage put aside serious concerns in favor of laughter and ribaldry, and showcased the intelligence and heart of Shakespeare Behind Bars veteran Jerry Guenthner.
  • I have a friend, a sensible, rational creature, not outwardly generous, but happy to share a garibaldi if pressed.
  • Some raucous laughter followed the ribald remark.
  • But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
  • Thoughtful answers are copasetic, though ribald, eccentric, absurd responses earn magical brownie points. Least fave interview question
  • Attempting to capture the saucy spirit of the movies and genre on which the series was based, and even featuring several of the frisky familiar faces from the films, one would anticipate a risqué, ribald offering.
  • Some of the poetry, written between 1220 and 1250, was blatantly ribald and sensual.
  • Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry? Heart of the West [Annotated]
  • His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar.
  • It opens in 1860—when Garibaldi and his patriotic troops land in Sicily, and the Risorgimento that will ultimately produce a unified Italy begins in earnest. A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World
  • He was without kith or kin, a lonely old man, embittered and pessimistic, fighting vermin the while and looking at Garibaldi, Engels, and Dan Burns gazing down at him from the blood-bespattered walls. DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
  • As the title suggests, it's mostly Lynch's movie - the earthy, ribald Nora provides the epicentre for the story, the focus of Joyce's passion and jealousy.
  • Meanwhile "inebriation in all its most brutal and disgraceful shapes" takes its moral toll upon the masses in the form of vile oaths, imprecations, naughty songs, and pervasive "ribaldry"; thus procedures that are intended to facilitate public participation actually create an "earthly hell" on the deck of the outlaw vessel (405). Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
  • Alight with enthusiasm, Professor Kaplan's conversation ranges from the ribald ditties sung by bakers kneading the dough in 18th-century France to recent moves for millers to supply flour in smaller and easier-to-lift sackfuls so as to encourage female recruits to the profession. The Best Baguette in Paris
  • Stories rich in erotic or scatological suggestion can elicit ribald laughter as well.
  • The material is frequently ribald, often racy, and always laced with profanity.
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  • Remarriage for widowed individuals beyond childbearing age was traditionally greeted with community ribaldry, since a sexual relationship was being entered into without the end of family-building.
  • Auntie (a strong Anne Collins) and her nieces (Ailish Tynan and Helen Williams) injected rather too much ribaldry and suggestiveness into the proceedings; surely this community is rather buttoned up and not so free?
  • O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines.
  • Still others say the queen was disposed to say ‘We are not amused’ whenever the conversation took a ribald turn.
  • How then do you manage to write such ribald stuff?
  • This resulted in a few innocuously ribald emails going back and forth until he agreed, which is credit to the pure, unadulterated force that is my charm.
  • They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not all great Jamaican music is serious, and this infectious 70s hit is ribald reggae at its finest.
  • In Caravaggio's supremely moving work, Ecce Homo (Palazzo Bianco, Genoa), Christ, drooping over His corded hands, submits to cruel ribaldry.
  • Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party). The Not So Great Dictator
  • Most students are responsible and prudential and thus not as ribald as Wolfe makes them out to be.
  • The fish identification card includes the Garibaldi, California's State Fish, yellowtail, bat rays, the extremely depleted bocaccio, the elusive popeye catalufa, & many more.
  • As the jugs of wine were passed round and the atmosphere grew more ribald, Bligh wondered if this was just going to be some kind of orgy.
  • He composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the bridge-foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Featuring some of the sassiest veterans of RuPaul's Drag Race as professors of fabulousness, RuPaul's Drag U each week coaches three "biological women" with self-esteem issues to "unleash their inner diva" in a raucous, hilariously ribald and often unexpectedly touching crash course in self-acceptance and confidence building. Matt's Picks: Week of June 20-23
  • Sternheim's play is ribald, satirical, self referential, and quirky.
  • In fact, if truth be told, he thoroughly enjoyed the ribaldry though never would he admit that to anyone. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
  • Surprisingly, for all his sex farce foolishness and ridiculous ribaldry, Benny Hill knew what was funny.
  • Although you acknowledge that "references to demons, poltergeists, and other unpleasant spiritual beings" are a matter of concern in the first edition, you excuse references to fairies, gnomes and medieval life, as well as "the occasional use of words such as hoyden and ribald," in later editions. 07/03/2005 - 07/10/2005
  • You want to put an end to ribald remarks from colleagues at work who put you in charge of the ‘Suggestion Shoebox’!
  • As a West Ham fan, I am aware of the ribaldry, invective and outright abuse this statement leaves me open to, but unless and until we qualify, that is my position. Liverpool's European Losers Cup outing is enough to make ad men mad | Martin Kelner
  • He details daily routines, the flexible yet morally grounded leadership style of a gifted Scoutmaster, and the often ribald creativity of camp games and songs.
  • So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry.
  • moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
  • The language of the hymn held a subversive appeal for the working classes, and her ribald treatments of these school assembly faves is irresistible.
  • The material is frequently ribald, often racy, and always laced with profanity.
  • I man, in the end of his chara6lcrs, before the Canter - bury tales, thus excufes the ribaldry, which is very grofs in many of his novels. The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
  • The crudeness and ribaldry were, of course, part of a deliberate marketing ploy, designed to tickle palates grown jaded by constant repasts of R - rated movies and cable shows.
  • The comic writers of the town, when they had got hold of this story, made much of it, and bespattered him with all the ribaldry they could invent, charging him falsely with the wife of Menippus, one who was his friend and served as lieutenant under him in the wars; and with the birds kept by Pyrilampes, an acquaintance of Pericles, who, they pretended, used to give presents of peacocks to Pericles’ female friends. Pericles
  • But her reception was worse than that of Macready, for not content with shouts and yells they heaped disgusting epithets on her, and were so vulgar in their ribaldry that she flew in affright from the stage, "blushing," it was said, "even through the rouge on her face. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • This is the ribald streak I referred to.
  • Sure, workplace ribaldry or unwanted sexual advances directed at women may sometimes be motivated by a desire to put women ‘in their place’ - to humiliate them, terrorize them, even force them to quit.
  • The whole House burst "into ribald laughter at this quite unexpected solution of the problem of a better central control of our war effort '. THE GUARDSMEN
  • Condemn Saxon's references to fairies, gnomes, and medieval life and the use of words like "hoyden" and "ribald" just like you condemned references to poltergeists in the first edition. Archive 2005-07-03
  • Most of the women meet their increasingly gruesome fate in the first half; the second act concentrates on Verna, Jordan's final prey, with the victims acting as a ghostly, often ribald chorus.
  • The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack.
  • The spiritualists called down thunder upon the head of the poet, whom they depicted as a vulgar and ribald lampooner who had not only committed the profanity of sneering at the mysteries of a higher state of life, but the more unpardonable profanity of sneering at the convictions of his own wife. Robert Browning
  • He made tea and I could hear him rustling through the cupboard under the sink for garibaldi biscuits.
  • To encapsulate his humanitarianism in this immensely accessible ribaldry is a triumph of serious intention within comic means.
  • Men with implausible whiskers and killer breath traded ribaldry and cursed the niggardliness of non-buyers, while women doled out penny dainties to raggedy kids and cackled about their menfolk's amorous shortcomings.
  • There were a cardinal and an aide to Garibaldi.
  • While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment.
  • And in attempting to mimic the Greek life as much as possible, some deliciously ribald elements have been included.
  • You're Welcome America" is a ribald wound-salter and, in terms of the Bush legacy, everything Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide
  • She told the world about the Risorgimento through her newspaper dispatches, stopped the movement's leaders from arguing, and when Garibaldi was shot and wounded, it was White he wanted by his bedside, said author Paolo Ciampi, who has published the first full account of her years in Italy. Englishwoman is hailed as a heroine of Italy's unification struggle
  • Mount Garibaldi is only 20 km from tidewater at the head of Howe Sound.
  • I have no idea why I was suddenly badgered by the smell of those biscuits in particular, rather than, say, Garibaldi (squashed-fly biscuits) or custard creams.
  • The unregenerate Manet felt that the fame, or notoriety, of a Garibaldi was not enough.
  • In his desire to flesh out the documentary bones, Mr Phillips is inclined to make statements such as: ‘Groups of friends conversed; young males sought the attention of young females with varying degrees of ribaldry.’
  • In the adopted city of the bawdy pun master Pietro Aretino, one of Sansovino's close friends, such ribaldry, even in so august a location, should come as no surprise.
  • Some swear it was the ribald gang of rag-tag homoerotic bank robbers who stole the show. Point Break…adapted for stage. Homoerotic! Sensational! Idiotic! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
  • I have chosen to single out one looney-tunes Democrat and one ribald Republican, not to imply equal responsibility, but simply to show how widespread is the insanity. Cliff Schecter: U.S. Midterms: Political Freak Show
  • New Tricks9pm, BBC1The cosiest cop show on telly, with an episode referencing child abuse, leftwing activism, and Garibaldi biscuits. Tonight's TV highlights
  • Years after, Northmour was killed fighting under the colours of Garibaldi for the liberation of Tyrol.
  • As one enters Via Garibaldi from Piazza Marose down the vistaed street where a precious strip of the blue sky seems more lovely for the shadowy way, the first house on the right is Palazzo Cambiaso, built by Alessi, while on the left, No. 2, is Palazzo Gambaro, which belonged to the Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
  • Anna is admitted to this strange, all male sexual ribaldry that goes on in the programming department of SII.
  • My questions to other flying crew members brought ribald responses and suggestions of a quite unhelpful nature.
  • On his succession as king, he had taken over from a bibulously dissolute, bisexual father for whom court life revolved around hunting parties, orgies, and ribaldry. The Dragon’s Trail
  • The drunkenness, heated arguments and ribaldry of The County Election return in The Verdict of the People, which focuses on the counting of votes.
  • They are also called cowberries, foxberries, quailberries, cougarberries, partridgeberries, beaverberries (which is an open goal for ribald single entendres), mountain cranberries and wurtleberries. Times, Sunday Times
  • One can understand how Pepi achieved cult status in post-Franco Madrid, but it would have been difficult to predict that this ribald production would launch the career that would save the moribund Spanish film industry.
  • Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm. The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews
  • ‘There's a lot of ribaldry involved, but every bit of it is true,’ says Arthur.
  • Nudity and ribaldry have been a staple of Las Vegas entertainment since Siegel's day, the bosomy chorus girls parading behind the comics and crooners.
  • Mazzini had not allowed Garibaldi to press home his advantage against the French, and, early in June, Oudinot, strengthened by reinforcements, again advanced on the city.
  • He called the fellow ribald, villain, javel, back-biter, slanderer, and the son of perdition: citing therewith terrible threatening out of Holy Scripture. The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth
  • Neither he nor any of his staff - Italians from every area of the country - had ever seen anything like it, but after much lewd ribaldry we sliced a small piece off the end.
  • Lincoln was very fond of witty, and quite often ribald, stories, a great many of them having anal references.
  • They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys. Times, Sunday Times
  • When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
  • '' 'Garibaldi' '' biscuits, a [[British]] delicacy, are popularly known as squashed fly biscuits from their appearance. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Labour's Jack Straw meanwhile shows his advanced age, belying his reputation as a funster, while friend-to-the-stars the Tory member for Ribald Valley Nigel Evans above, getting excited on the terrace with lewd icon Nicky Tilsey/Adam Rickett comes down hard on these filthy dirty radio-sexualists. Burlesque Gate: No Immoral High Ground For Lib Dems
  • Carlino's libreria at Bia Maiore (today Corso Garibaldi), with its cose magiche (magic things) — notebooks, pens, and ink — which could tradurre in segni la parola (translate the word into signs); and even more than an individual word, these magic instruments could set down whole thoughts, ideas, and stories. Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
  • France as well as Denmark, Carlyle and his school made some effort to justify their Germanism, by pitting what they called the piety and simplicity of Germany against what they called the cynicism and ribaldry of France. The Crimes of England
  • McCall Smith's feelings towards his characters - whether they be contempt, pity, affection, sympathy or admiration - are written with light-hearted, teasing humour, and moments of ribaldry.
  • Some ancient Anglo-Saxon strain in our culture - a gas gene, perhaps - stirs up lame-brained ribaldry whenever the word ‘fart’ is mentioned.
  • Why—speaking of disloyalties, forsakings, and acts that seemingly cannot be explained—did I forsake myself to draw cartoons, when I am averse by nature to caricature, ribaldry, and violence? Kalooki Nights
  • Garibaldi Hill and St. George's Hill form two smaller, isolated massifs in the west.
  • Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the _Canterbury Tales_, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
  • Whistling a famous and delightfully ribald tune, he sauntered off in expectation of the biggest pseudo steak the ship's autochef could produce. The Tar-Aiym Krang
  • The Brummel school -- that is, the primrose-glove adventurers -- were a very different order of men from the present-day fellows, who take a turn in Circassia or China, or a campaign with Garibaldi; and who, with all their defects, are men of mettle and pluck and daring. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
  • See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.
  • I drank it and ate a garibaldi biscuit.
  • It pointed out that Garibaldi, the hero of the Risorgimento movement to unite Italy in the 19th century, was born in Nice but was never described as French.
  • Cheaper hotels are mainly ranged around the Piazza Garibaldi, though the accommodation can be basic.
  • Carruso or whatever be his name residing at La Ferté Macé, Garibaldi was in the habit of expressing himself -- chiefly at the card table, be it said -- in a curious language which might have been mistaken for French. The Enormous Room
  • St. George's Hill and Garibaldi Hill are interpreted as tectonically uplifted volcanic sequences from early eruptive activity of Soufriere Hills volcano.
  • Three teenage girls fell about laughing and started shrieking ribald comments.
  • The contest is fierce and the jokes ribald, particularly during clips of the guests' early appearances. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will I soon be going to Tea Dances at the village hall, whirling Mrs Skidmore round in a slow waltz in between the cups of weak Typhoo and the Garibaldi biscuits?
  • Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the Canterbury tales, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels. English literary criticism
  • NOTE: When George I imported his seraglio of impoverished gentlewomen from Germany, he provided the Jacobite songwriters with material for some of their most ribald verses. Great Scots
  • In a word, it was a most pleasant evening, enlivened with ribald laughter from a group of geriatric golfers!
  • No ribaldry, no drinking songs echoing out of dark alleys. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm. The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews
  • I have a friend, a sensible, rational creature, not outwardly generous, but happy to share a garibaldi if pressed.
  • Dad went downstairs and made Mum a cup of tea and brought it upstairs on a tray with two Garibaldi biscuits, otherwise known as squashed flies. The English American
  • Some ribald passer-by put a battered felt hat upon Vishnu's sacred curls, and there the poor image sat, an alien in an indifferent land, a sack across its shoulders, a "billycock" upon its head, and honoured at most with a passing stare. Gulliver of Mars
  • Perhaps the Tudor sense of humour was as ribald as ours. The Sun

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