How do you use Bawdy in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ribald or dirty, plus the exact meaning.
Bawdy in a sentence
Bawdy meaning
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
- Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
Using Bawdy
- The main meaning on this page is: Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
- Useful related words include: off-color, ribald, dirty, bawdry.
- In the example corpus, bawdy often appears in combinations such as: and bawdy, the bawdy, bawdy and.
Context around Bawdy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bawdy
- In this selection, "bawdy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, friendly, exchange, sometimes, witch, memes and jokesand stand out and add context to how "bawdy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rather bawdy character and a really bawdy way whereas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bawdy" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bawdy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
PrideArts finds holiday cheer again with a bawdy panto. (9 words)
However, Price says the bawdy comedian liked gospel music. (9 words)
Allison is bawdy and blunt, particularly when it comes to sex. (11 words)
The closing statement by the bank’s barristers also discloses details of a secure phone system known as the “Black” which Mr Kolomoisky and Mr Bogolyubov used to communicate while carrying out their fraud, as well as sharing “often bawdy memes” and jokes. (43 words)
If isn’t the most sophisticated allegory (you won’t need a shovel to uncover the subtext), it’s a bawdy hoot, applying the director’s cracked visual imagination to screenwriter Tony McNamara’s volley of frequently hilarious pidgin bon mots. (41 words)
A slight man with a bushy mustache, Mr. Nussbaum could seemingly play anybody: He was a fierce Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” and a bawdy witch in “Macbeth,” two of his many roles for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. (39 words)
It was shaming the working girls and penalising the hotel owner for allegedly running a “bawdy house”! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Allison is bawdy and blunt, particularly when it comes to sex.
A slight man with a bushy mustache, Mr. Nussbaum could seemingly play anybody: He was a fierce Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” and a bawdy witch in “Macbeth,” two of his many roles for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
The closing statement by the bank’s barristers also discloses details of a secure phone system known as the “Black” which Mr Kolomoisky and Mr Bogolyubov used to communicate while carrying out their fraud, as well as sharing “often bawdy memes” and jokes.
But she’s busier than ever, drawing audiences andgetting big laughs with bawdy jokesand ukulele-strummed songs.
Directed by the standup comedian Yassir Lester and his brother Isaiah, this bawdy bowling comedy follows Walt (Shameik Moore), who hones his alley prowess to save the local lanes.
Gigantiello ended up being demoted last year after it emerged he'd approved the shoot for Carpenter's bawdy music clip.
If isn’t the most sophisticated allegory (you won’t need a shovel to uncover the subtext), it’s a bawdy hoot, applying the director’s cracked visual imagination to screenwriter Tony McNamara’s volley of frequently hilarious pidgin bon mots.
PrideArts finds holiday cheer again with a bawdy panto.
Shakespeare was for the audiences to get involved in in a really bawdy way whereas in fact people tend to treat Shakespeare with a lot of reverence.
There was plenty of light relief from the bawdy cigarette girls and soldiers and our personal favourite was the bullfighter Escamillo., who drew lots of applause from those both on stage and off.
This sets the stall out for a bawdy evening - within the first three songs a woman storms towards the stage, removes her bra and hurls it at Cantona.
He writes admiringly of Lincoln’s voracious interests, which ran from Shakespeare to bawdy humor to Euclidean geometry.
It's moments like these, and like the bawdy saloon-house skits that, in the words of one diarist, "made brothers out of strangers," that Petrakos is most interested in.
Martha Stewart and a sizable n of talk show hosts (not just the women hosts ) was biting Dolly’s style long before I could even make the friendly, bawdy, but subdued connection.
These days, however, the festival is more an excuse for the community of women to exchange bawdy jokes.
A portrait emerges in of a complex woman—sensitive and brash, bookish yet sometimes bawdy.
However, Price says the bawdy comedian liked gospel music.
Hustlers is as bawdy, lusty and in-your-face as A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood is quiet, decorous and tasteful, even though both reveal the devastation of the spirit when humanity leaves the room.
It was shaming the working girls and penalising the hotel owner for allegedly running a “bawdy house”!
Then, as I discussed, I think Josh Leonard brought a lot of nuance to a rather bawdy character.
Common combinations with bawdy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and bawdy 5×
- the bawdy 5×
- bawdy and 4×
- often bawdy 3×
- with bawdy 2×
- bawdy music 2×
- bawdy humor 2×
- as bawdy 2×
- of bawdy 2×