Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being racy; peculiarly characteristic and piquant flavor or style; spiciness; pungency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
racy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong odor or taste property
- noun behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
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Examples
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In response to the general 'raciness' of the photos, he said,
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But the Daily News went after him head-to-head and they were ashamed of the kind of raciness they were gonna have to do and they didn't do it.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story 1997
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TVGuide.com: A lot of parents aren't too keen on the raciness of the show.
Jersey Shore's New Girl Talks Tension with Sammi and Naked Regrets 2011
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It was this raciness, allied to his remarkable facility with languages and a relish for the unconventional – perhaps a distaste for the conventional as well – that led him into some of the byways of Francophone literature, including the crique-craque tradition of Haitian folk fables, which he would assert were superior to those of La Fontaine, especially to anyone who expressed the opposite view.
Translation 2010
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That excerpt is also a good indication of the clip's raciness.
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It was this raciness, allied to his remarkable facility with languages and a relish for the unconventional – perhaps a distaste for the conventional as well – that led him into some of the byways of Francophone literature, including the crique-craque tradition of Haitian folk fables, which he would assert were superior to those of La Fontaine, especially to anyone who expressed the opposite view.
On Douglas Parmée 2009
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It was this raciness, allied to his remarkable facility with languages and a relish for the unconventional – perhaps a distaste for the conventional as well – that led him into some of the byways of Francophone literature, including the crique-craque tradition of Haitian folk fables, which he would assert were superior to those of La Fontaine, especially to anyone who expressed the opposite view.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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Parts of the evening had a degree of raciness the stage might not have seen before.
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Still he hates to disappoint, so he did write back apologising for his apparent lack of raciness.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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In her humorous raciness, Sophie Tucker could be viewed as a precursor of today's strong female singers.
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