racy
adjective
slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
raciness
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a word derived from
racy.
Example Sentences
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This sauvignon blanc shows the raciness we’ve come to expect from New Zealand savvie, without the vegetal jalapeño notes we sometimes get.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
He noted the raciness of the car, saying there were more passes in the Cup Series than any single season before.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Describing Robbie's "delectable performance", Gleiberman said she "gives her the charisma of the truly unhinged - a duel pulse of wide-eyed spaciness and raciness, innocence and possession".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
But Hitchcock wasn’t the only director who released a film in 1960 that pushed the boundaries of onscreen violence or raciness, or that represented a decisive break from anything he had done before.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
In places Hollingsworth’s advice revealed, by refraction, a certain Victorian raciness.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
