raunchy

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The language is generally raunchy, and there are several gay jokes, but they're more sympathetic than homophobic.

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  1. adjective Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] uses language so aggressively raunchy that he seems to be insisting his choice of vocabulary, at least, is no sin” (Wall Street Journal).
  2. adjective Sexually explicit.
  3. adjective Exhibiting lust.

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  • Perhaps it's unconsummated chemistry that inspires the sometimes raunchy, always rocking sound The Kills have nurtured into sex-frenzied perfection for nearly ten years. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • It said on Thursday the free-to-air channel Playboy One had broadcast unencrypted raunchy, and what the watchdog deemed offensive, material until September 2008.
  • The film is "Adventureland" and despite Miramax's attempts to market it like a raunchy, broad teen comedy, audiences saw through all that and the film performed like a coming-of-age drama. —  In Contention
  • Borat, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Superbad are four broad, raunchy, dick-joke-fortified comedies that received almost universally good reviews. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Chris Columbus wouldn't have been my first guess as the writer director of a pseudo-raunchy teen comedy, but okay. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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