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  • adjective superlative form of bawdy: most bawdy.

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Examples

  • But right behind him, the wharf was filled with the bawdiest, most depraved, and most pleasurable houses of ill repute in America.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • That's why he'd prefer to skip a discussion of the bawdiest moments in the acrobatic burlesque show he's opening Thursday, "Trixie and Monkey: All or Nothing," and chat instead about the "tremendous, surprising" trapeze feats.

    Off-Off Broadway Seating Arrangement Lizzie Simon 2011

  • I've drawn on some of my most memorable professors, the ones who told the bawdiest stories that were therefore unforgettable.

    Abraham Verghese - An interview with author 2010

  • Madeline, whose areolas were the size of small tangerines, Madeline who'd ambled along with me and V across the Cape Town waterfront and loved to drink and get wild in the bawdiest of Coloured bars.

    Madeline the Admired Isabell Serafin 2011

  • It's the bawdiest of his work - Judd Apatow is one of the writer's - and the most action-packed.

    Kevin's Review: You Don't Mess with the Zohan - Zohan's Crotch, That Is « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • A very large number of chansons, including some of the bawdiest, were ‘spiritualized’ in French and German religious collections Pasquier, 1576; Berg, 1582.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Buried last year by its studio...one of the funniest and bawdiest movies I've ever seen.

    Comfort movies. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Right now I'm in the middle of reading another great book, "Minsky's Burlesque: a fast and funny look at America's bawdiest Era" by Morton Minsky the youngest Minsky brother and Milt Machlin.

    Book Review: The American Burlesque Show Burlesque Daily 2007

  • The Bard liked the word; later in the play, after one of his bawdiest puns, Hamlet says to the innocent Ophelia, “Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The Bard liked the word; later in the play, after one of his bawdiest puns, Hamlet says to the innocent Ophelia, “Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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