bawdy

(bô'dē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Humorously coarse; risqué.
2. Vulgar; lewd.

bawdily bawd'i·ly adv.
bawdiness bawd'i·ness n.

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adjective

Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang raunchy. See decent/indecent.

adj

Definition: vulgar, dirty
Antonyms: chaste, clean, decent, proper, virginal

For a list of words related to bawdy, see:

• Vulgar, Rude, Degenerate, or Wild

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See words rhyming with "bawdy."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - liderlig, slibrig, underlødig
n. - liderlig snak, lummer tale, smudslitteratur

Nederlands (Dutch)
schuin, schunnig

Français (French)
adj. - paillard
n. - maison close (arch)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - anzüglich, obszön
n. - obszönes Gerede, Obszönitäten

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αισχρός, χυδαίος

Italiano (Italian)
scurrile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - indecente

Русский (Russian)
скабрезный, похотливый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - obsceno, concupiscente
n. - persona obscena o concupiscente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - otuktig, osedlig, oanständig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
猥亵的, 下流的, 猥亵的语言

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 猥褻的, 下流的
n. - 猥褻的語言

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 음란한, 추잡한
n. - 음담

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 淫らな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) فاجر, داعر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של ניבול-פה, גס‬
n. - ‮ניבול פה‬

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