Raunchiness

/ˈɹɔːn(t)ʃɪnəs/

Synonyms for "raunchiness" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
blue humorcrude humor

Strong matches (3)

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)

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More general

8 entries
aesthetic characteristiccontent attributecultural evaluationhumor stylemoral qualitynormative judgmentperformative rhetoricquality

More specific

8 entries
blue humorcrude jokecultural stigmaerotic materialobscenitypornographyrating scalesoftcore content

Collocations

6 entries
crude raunchinesscultural raunchinessmass media raunchinessobscene raunchinessraunchiness levelsexual raunchiness

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double bill, Twice Around the Park, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV.

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Not unexpectedly, we find here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy.

Source: wiktionary

During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast.

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For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure. His Playboy Clubs were open to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight censorship.

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