raunchy
adjective
vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene.
raunchiness
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a word derived from
raunchy.
Example Sentences
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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to be a nonstarter for the timid broadcast networks that were television in 1972.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
There are hundreds of retailers that stock ugly sweaters now, with varying degrees of raunchiness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2019
It’s weird, confusing and kind of dorky phenomenon, one that is unexpectedly captured by “Big Mouth” in all its raunchiness.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019
The glory of “Pitch Perfect” is that it’s devoted, above all, to the friendship and shared ambition of young women, and that it finds plenty of room within that premise for raunchiness, ridiculousness and warmth.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2015
