bawdier; bawdiest
Examples of bawdy in a Sentence
Adjective
a bawdy film that is not appropriate for children
a bawdy comment about someone you work with could get you fired
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 May 2025
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson established themselves as something of a 21st century Abbott & Costello (or, at the very least, Cheech & Chong) with this bawdy 2005 smash directed and co-written by David Dobkin.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
What follows is an alternately hilarious, bawdy, and sad attempt to solve the former problem before the latter befalls her.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
There are weird, humiliating games, bawdy speeches, bursts of boozy laughter, and a punitive spirit of newlywed hazing.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Lawrence Lamont’s bawdy buddy comedy One of Them Days—in which Keke Palmer and SZA play best friends who spend a crazy day trying to scrape together $1500 in rent money—opened in January and stayed in theaters for more than two months before shifting to Netflix in early April.
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“Bawdy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bawdy. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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