Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
Source: tatoeba (2372364)
Bawdy
//ˈbɔ.di//
Synonyms for "bawdy" (93 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
Related word relations
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Translations
30 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- неприличен adj (obscene)
- нецензурен adj (obscene)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 下流的 adj (obscene)
- 淫穢的 /淫秽的 adj (obscene)
- 猥褻的 /猥亵的 adj (obscene)
Czech
2 entries- lascivní adj (obscene)
- necudný adj (obscene)
Danish
2 entries- sjofel adj (obscene)
- uanstændig adj (obscene)
Dutch
2 entries- obsceen adj (obscene)
- onkuis adj (obscene)
Finnish
1 entries- rivo adj (obscene)
French
2 entries- grivois adj (obscene)
- paillard adj (obscene)
German
1 entries- unanständig adj (obscene)
Greek
2 entries- άσεμνος adj (obscene)
- αισχρός adj (obscene)
Māori
2 entries- mōtekoteko adj (obscene)
- takao adj (obscene)
Polish
2 entries- obleśny adj (obscene)
- sprośny adj (obscene)
Romanian
1 entries- obscen adj (obscene)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nepristojan adj (obscene)
- prost adj (obscene)
Spanish
3 entries- guarro adj (obscene)
- lascivo adj (obscene)
- sucio adj (obscene)
Swedish
1 entries- oanständig adj (obscene)
Ukrainian
2 entries- непристойний adj (obscene)
- розпусний adj (obscene)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
“Where didst thou get so miserable a luggage, blinkard?” “Nay whither art thou carrying that bawdy company, thou rake?”
Source: tatoeba (7340500)
The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.
Source: wiktionary
Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.
Source: wiktionary
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