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• Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout.1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry quilt
• They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.1987, Sheila Anderson, “End of the Season”, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson, editors, Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45. From the entry chiack
• There was no shortage of ockers who could sing bawdy songs and abuse Poms and chunder on cue.1987, James Oram, Hogan: The Story of a Son of Oz, page 69. From the entry ocker
• Jokey, often bawdy, frequently satirical, they employed rural techniques in an urban setting, gently lampooning country ways through a city sophistication.1985, Paul Oliver, “Black Music: ‘Sales Tax on It’: Race Records in the New Deal Years”, in Stephen W. Baskerville, Ralph Willett…. From the entry hokum
• Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 100. From the entry ordurous
• But it’s aglow with unforgettable characters like the bawdy boy who shares the young Prosper’s hospital ward and Prosper’s sad, germophobic mother.2009 August 16, Max Byrd, “Rosie and Friends”, in New York Times. From the entry germophobic
• The juxtaposition of the bawdy, cuckold stage humor with the entrance of the mortificating supplicants and the monk's bitter diatribe in The Seventh Seal.2004 February 8, Ellen Dossey [signed Mike], “Movie Moments”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry mortificate
• Like his story in Sc. 9, we might see the stand-alone, bawdy comic routine to which this gives rise as moving the travellers some way along the route.2022 January 27, Catherine Richardson, Arden of Faversham, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry nonsequitous
• The spread of venereal disease slaughtered innocent wives and families by the thousands; the plague of bawdy houses destroyed the peace and livelihood of honest citizens.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 57. From the entry bawdy-house
• He was an atheist, a rationalist, a medical student of no great distinction, an SP punter, a singer of bawdy songs, an acknowledged expert in matters erotic.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 157. From the entry sp
• Lay there and flirted with the blue-jawed paramedic leaning over him, certain bawdy entendres on expressions like vital signs and dilation until the paramedic radioed ahead to Cambridge City's E.1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry blue-jawed

Meaning of bawdy

1. adjective Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
2. adjective Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
3. noun A bawdy or lewd person.

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How do you use bawdy in a sentence?

Bawdy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.”

What is a short sentence with bawdy?

“Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout.”

What does bawdy mean?

Bawdy means obscene; filthy; unchaste.