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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a bawdy manner; obscenely; lewdly.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a bawdy manner; lewdly or obscenely with humorous intent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Obscenely; lewdly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a bawdy manner

Etymologies

  1. bawdy +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • ““Ke ke ke ke,” she sang bawdily, lifting up the hem of her dress, gyrating lasciviously.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Kettle of Vultures

  • “The film pays loving tribute to the striking machinists at Ford's motor plant via the vehicle of the bawdily unreconstructed class-war farce, referencing everything from The Rag Trade to the Boulting brothers 'I'm All Right, Jack to Carry On at Your Convenience.”

    The Guardian: Made in Dagenham

  • “No one wants anything feminine, unless it is bawdily so, like defending a woman's rights to show her naked body in public or something.”

    Women must be Men: Mourning the Lost of the “Spirit of Man”

  • “To test this, simply think of some particularly bawdily outrageous title for adults and try imagine it being put on a highschool reading list.”

    Yet another G-word

  • “A round of laughter erupted when someone bawdily suggested a connection between the two subjects.”

    Fictionaut: Elephant in the City

  • “C, teh ting eez, ewe shud naot apply enneh fisy… feesi… bawdily discomfurt too teh kitteh.”

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  • “She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy.”

    November 1st, 2002

  • “They jest bawdily about men's sexual anatomies; Iras, when asked amusedly where she would choose to have her 'inch of fortune', replies, 'Not in my husband's nose'.”

    Shakespeare

  • “Unlike Angela, she herself never verbally tendered evidence of the versatile range of amatory experiences her roommate and best friend had bawdily claimed for them both.”

    Simon & Schuster: Closing Time

  • “I think we'd better go now, " he said, so she made excuses to the other girls, who teased her bawdily.”

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