risqué
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of risqué
1865–70; < French, past participle of risquer to risk
Example Sentences
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Premiering Monday on Paramount+, it’s a cousin, in textual and corporate terms, to the CBS sitcom “The Neighborhood,” from which it has been spun off, and though it includes some words you can’t say on broadcast TV and has a streaming-length, eight-episode season, it’s for all intents and purposes a network sitcom — good-hearted, familial and even less risqué than most.
From Los Angeles Times
On the 12-track album, which dropped Friday to mixed critical reception, Swift is uncharacteristically risqué and, for possibly the first time, indulges her inner theater kid without reservation.
From Los Angeles Times
The most risque joke of the sketch came when Farnsworth mentioned that there would be channels for people of every culture, including “Telemundo for Spanish-speakers and BET — Black Entertainment Television.”
From Los Angeles Times
But it was up against other, hipper shows like The Word, and a balding, middle-aged, middle-class man being risqué suddenly seemed less cutting-edge.
From BBC
The audience members laughing the hardest on a recent visit to the Lyceum Theatre were the older married couples who found it risqué enough to enjoy but not so risqué that it might upend their thinking of right and wrong.
From Los Angeles Times
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