bawdy
adjective
indecent; lewd; obscene.
bawdily
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a word derived from
bawdy.
Example Sentences
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It is the best of “Beau” in microcosm, bawdily funny, visually inventive, with a vein of genuine feeling running through it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Grounded in this kind of reality, “Sideways” works beautifully on any number of levels, from the at-times bawdily comedic to the genuinely heartbreaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2020
The zigzagging between literature, religion, fantasy, the mock-academic and the bawdily demotic will be familiar to any reader, or failed reader, of Midnight’s Children.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015
Hagen--now bawdily arrogant, now anguished with betrayal--is ferociously riveting.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the cowardly Lord High Executioner, Ross Lehman bawdily woos Devine to save his own neck while sporting a getup and manner reminiscent of Eddie Cantor.
From Time Magazine Archive
