Examples
“One day I decided to just come out and ask one of the doctors about it, and he turned beet red and suggested that I possess a certain bawdiness that appeals to many British men.”
“It amuses the children, who can't resist the bawdiness, and engages the adults, who can't resist the blasphemy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Christmas, and Caganers, in Catalonia
“Whether in spite or because of its humor and bawdiness, Son of Schmilsson actually went gold and reached number 12 on the charts, feats Nilsson would never again accomplish.”
Midweek Music Moment: Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson « A Progressive on the Prairie
“Viewed in the context of late-19th-century conventions, many of these works convey an almost frathouse bawdiness, as the artists defiantly strip and dare their public not to look away.”
“But she's got this behind-the-scenes bawdiness that reminds me of Carol Burnett in her heyday, which is just lovely for a bunch of guys.”
“Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work.”
“He was a favorite of a younger crowd who enjoyed his bawdiness.”
Five Things You May Not Have Known About Shakespeare | myFiveBest
“Mr. McElroy captures as few have the combination of guts, narcissism, bawdiness and nuttiness—borne of difficult and even abusive childhoods—that defines certain public personalities, actors and actresses prime among them.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Guidebook Through An Impossible Oeuvre
“Our satirical edge runs from Hogarth to Gerald Scarfe, Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson give us fascist fruitheads, the likes of Edward Lear and David Shrigley fly the flag for absurdity, while the in-your-face innuendo of Sarah Lucas's work and Aubrey Beardsley's elegant erotic drawings make strange bedfellows under the banner of bawdiness.”
“When musician James Andrews called my husband asking him to pass along the message that the Krewe wanted Dr. John to serve as this year's King, he described the level of political satire, grass roots goodwill and bawdiness to seal the deal.”
The Huffington Post: Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Front Page: Treme Stories Ripped from the Headlines
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lilmishap indecent, lewd, obscene, coarse, vulgar, behaviour or writing speech.
Feb 20, 2009