racy
adjective
slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
racily
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a word derived from
racy.
Example Sentences
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There is much to enjoy in this book: it is racily picaresque, energetic and clever.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2013
On this axis the play, now whimsically, now racily, now sentimentally, keeps turning throughout many scenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career.
From Time Magazine Archive
She believed him when he wrote, racily, that he sought immortality not in heaven but "among the snowy mountains and sweet valleys of this world."
From Time Magazine Archive
I give Scot's translation as being more racily expressed.
From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray
