risqué

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  1. adjective Suggestive of or bordering on indelicacy or impropriety.

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  • Diesel is celebrating its 30th birthday with a risqué ad that weds a montage of 1980s porn films with cartoon animations. —  Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
  • Whether you are choosing to pierce ears, lips, noses, eyebrows, tongues, or something a bit more risqué, safety and hygiene should be at the top of ... —  We Blog A Lot
  • On Tuesday night he was rushed to Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital with bleeding on the brain. star and host of risqué '90s television show Man O Man was put on life-support after his condition worsened. —  Daily Telegraph | Top Stories
  • Riding bikes was considered risqué for women in the mid-1800s.
  • After all, one is a portrait of a formerly edgy and risqué southern California dude who's gone soft and sentimental in middle age, while the other ... —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. French, from past participle of risquer, to risk, from risque, risk; see risk.

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  1. Fem. risquée: F., past participle of risquer, risk, hazard.
 

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