Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. sexually outrageous, perhaps suggestive of sexual impropriety
Etymologies
- From French risqué. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So your only hint that this comic might contain risque material would be the lack of a CCA seal.”
“Cable television is "invited into" the home, so parents take the risk that it will contain risque material.”
“I don’t know what’s up with this trend for having women from SciFi shows posing in risque positions for men’s magazines.”
“A Tennessee GOP candidate is under fire for so-called risque modeling pictures.”
“I think that Steele should be more worried about association with Palin that the other way around .... after all the idicy she's shown, a connection with the RNC going to a 'risque' nightclub shoudn't hurt her.”
“The bad girl i guess. .and you're so right, its taken guts to write some of the stuff I write about, I lost a potential boyfi after his sister found my blog and said i was way too 'risque' ... but that won't stop me and to me that blog is not yet risque!!!. .lol ..”
“I mostly remember the "risque" moments -- Hendrix's bent national anthem, Country Joe getting the crowd to scream "FUCK!", and seeing bare breasts on screen for the first time.”
Val Brown: Woodstock Nation: Where Were You (Or Your Parents) During the Summer of "69?
“Wish we could see some of the more 'risque' pics with R2.”
“Both Ross and Brand who once had a kind of risque charm have fallen for their own schtick and now the witty cleverness which had rude margins is supplanted by crude obscenity which has nothing at it's core except a desire to shock.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“His use of a 1950s movie star as the mortal Helen adds an extra layer of humor that is beautifully exploited, and it works well with music and lyrics that stretch the concept of "risque" to its very limits.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘risque’.
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favorites, of all sorts
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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September Words-11337
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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supplementary
for enhancement of any English test
consanguineous, worldly, naiveté, enshroud, pernicious, prerogative, traitor, fledgling, vengeance, provision, furnish, quarrel and 94 more...
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Vocab List 2
bruit, smite, malapropism, tricorn, tenebrous, mawkish, disjunctive, mammon, lothario, embonpoint, pabulum, pother and 148 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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