[ UK /ɹˈɪbə‍ldɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪbɑɫdɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. ribald humor
  2. behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
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How To Use ribaldry In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment.
  • 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.
  • Anna is admitted to this strange, all male sexual ribaldry that goes on in the programming department of SII.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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