Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ribald; licentious; obscene; indecent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of a ribald quality.
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- adjective archaic Of a
ribald quality.
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Examples
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Here the bottle was brought out and passed round; and, after much blasphemous and ribaldrous conversation, a straw bed was made up on the floor, and Rodney laid down.
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He dissembled at first a great trembling, but presently throwing my arms aside, in a higher voice cry'd out: "Must you be prating, thou ribaldrous cut-throat whom, condemn'd for murdring thine host, nothing but the fall of the stage could have sav'd?
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