Bawdiness

However, his eccentricities–from his scatological humor and bawdiness in his writing to frenzied sudden impulsive acts such as leaping around the room in public like a cat–led some to believe that he suffered from some mental pathology.

And yet she is completely legible to the sorts of people who vote for Grammys: She prefers time-tested pop structures, she revisits the sweaty soul and disco energy of the 1970s, and sometimes even finds herself channeling some 1920s bawdiness.

Our writer hadn’t thought much about fun or joy, or about the bawdiness that comes out of a funk beat.

Bawdiness counteracts all that middle-class respectability.

Both authors report this late bit of Gibbonian bawdiness: "Why is a fat man like a Cornish Borough?