Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obscenity; lewdness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obscenity; lewdness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of being
bawdy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
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Examples
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One day I decided to just come out and ask one of the doctors about it, and he turned beet red and suggested that I possess a certain bawdiness that appeals to many British men.
thank you India, Sheila, Daryl, Cindy!!! | clusterflock 2008
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Viewed in the context of late-19th-century conventions, many of these works convey an almost frathouse bawdiness, as the artists defiantly strip and dare their public not to look away.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work.
Lauren Gunderson: Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce Lauren Gunderson 2011
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Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work.
Lauren Gunderson: Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce Lauren Gunderson 2011
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Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work.
Lauren Gunderson: Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce Lauren Gunderson 2011
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Whether in spite or because of its humor and bawdiness, Son of Schmilsson actually went gold and reached number 12 on the charts, feats Nilsson would never again accomplish.
Midweek Music Moment: Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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It amuses the children, who can't resist the bawdiness, and engages the adults, who can't resist the blasphemy.
Christmas, and Caganers, in Catalonia J. S. Marcus 2011
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"But she's got this behind-the-scenes bawdiness that reminds me of Carol Burnett in her heyday, which is just lovely for a bunch of guys."
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Whether in spite or because of its humor and bawdiness, Son of Schmilsson actually went gold and reached number 12 on the charts, feats Nilsson would never again accomplish.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Midweek Music Moment: Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson » Print 2009
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Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work.
Lauren Gunderson: Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce Lauren Gunderson 2011
lilmishap commented on the word bawdiness
indecent, lewd, obscene, coarse, vulgar, behaviour or writing speech.
February 20, 2009