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bawdy

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1. bawdy - Noun

2. bawdy - Adjective

3. bawdy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.

Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. Harry S. Truman

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. H. L. Mencken

The Ghost: I'm sorry to haunt you while you're rogering the help. Pocket: The rogering has not commenced, wisp. I have barely bridled the horse for a moist and bawdy ride. Now, go away! Christopher Moore (author)

Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Wallace Stevens

This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. Christopher Moore (author)

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny. Betty White

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