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  • adjective comparative form of bawdy: more bawdy

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Examples

  • The interesting thing is he doesn't cross out quite sensitive political or court gossip, or the bawdier passages – it's just the baby talk, which is both infantilising and quite sexualised.

    Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt 2011

  • She said, savoring the bawdier aspects of kid-speak.

    Nothing Revolts 2010

  • Book containing older and bawdier version of famous Dublin song is presented to Dublin Writers museum

    Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home 2010

  • Alas impromptu recitation of poetry is rather unfashionable in pubs in Toronto - and the locals would never understand the bawdier versions of Christmas Day In The Workhouse, a personal favourite.

    Cryptic crossword No 25,200 2010

  • The door had barely closed when the bird fired off two of his bawdier quips.

    Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010

  • The tiny 18th-century book – containing a version of the song that is almost a century older and considerably bawdier than the lyrics sung at Irish weddings and sporting fixtures – has been bought by the city's tourism authority and presented to the Dublin Writers museum.

    Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home 2010

  • Not necessarily "ballads," as they are no less smoldering than their higher-tempo anthems, "Devotion", "Go Shawty", and "Blind" seem to suggest a real vulnerability underneath the harder, bawdier exterior of the group.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: (Electrik) Red In The Face: Not Your Mom's All-Girl R&B Group 2009

  • Airmen looking for bawdier entertainment crowded the two major cities of East Anglia, Ipswich and Norwich, spending their liberty evenings in dance halls smelling of tobacco and cheap perfume.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Airmen looking for bawdier entertainment crowded the two major cities of East Anglia, Ipswich and Norwich, spending their liberty evenings in dance halls smelling of tobacco and cheap perfume.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • On the alt.country binge: I bought two from the Asylum Street Spankers, who remind me of Squirrel Nut Zippers, but bawdier, and Joe Henry's Trampoline the oher day from iTunes look out for those iTunes benders!

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2005 Archives 2005

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