How to Use bawdy in a Sentence

bawdy

adjective
  • Raitt has a mischievous, bawdy sense of humor.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This is an all ages show, so the humor was bawdy but never raunchy.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The news has prompted fans and haters alike to chew over the bawdy show's legacy.
    — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • The butler who steals the car is very elderly and bawdy.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • And like Ma herself, the movie is big, bawdy and full of music.
    — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • And then the more sensual aspects of it all come from the text, which is… a very bawdy tale.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The outfit served bawdy, vibes, and lewks all at the same time—the fashion trifecta.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 7 July 2021
  • But this being 2017 and all, a screenshot of the bawdy tweet lives on.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2017
  • There are three shows nightly, which are rumored to get progressively more bawdy than the last.
    — Caro Clark, GQ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • And the tactic is catchy enough to almost completely distract from the song’s bawdy premise.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • Many are bawdy, hilarious, the sort of stuff Lego would never touch.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The fan got their bearings, and Nasty dove right back into her brash and bawdy performance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
  • People called her the Lenny Bruce of Yale because of her bawdy sense of humor.
    — Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The scant few bawdy comedies that have reached theaters in the post-Hangover era, meanwhile, were made on the cheap.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • Alexia’s plan to book her ideal wedding venue hits a snag; Lisa hosts a bawdy slumber party.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • There are unfilled potholes in this journey to a father-and-son reunion, but there’s poignant and bawdy fun to be had, too.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 2017
  • Sapkowski’s world is bawdy, violent, and grotesque.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As time went on there was more acceptance to put bawdy on stage, so the 1987 version was more risque.
    — Randall G. Mielke, Aurora Beacon-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Nash had a seemingly endless line of bawdy stories for Kimmel.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In those days the open-air market was bawdy and vibrant; women walked through it barefoot, balancing tubs of fruit on their heads.
    — Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
  • Sarah Silverman’s comedy is bawdy and brawny and often takes a sharp turn to vulgar to make a point.
    — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Mia is the creative, bawdy one whose ideas are the lifeblood of the company's sole standout product — a makeup kit for a one-night stand.
    — Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Mia is the creative, bawdy one whose ideas are the lifeblood of the company’s sole standout product — a makeup kit for a one-night stand.
    — Garrett Mitchell, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the novel's best passages are the bawdy text exchanges between Daunis and her friend Lily.
    — Trisha Collopy Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
  • That’s because the musical path D’Angelo was headed on was light-years away from bawdy lover-boy balladry.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • For its sequel, the boozy, bawdy Bad Moms brand takes on Christmas, and welcomes a new slate of mothers.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Everett was too rock and roll for Broadway, too bawdy for concert halls, and too musical for standup comedy.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Yet Jim’s tweedy jackets and bow ties contrasted with a bawdy wit and a brashness that served him well in the scrimmages of his working life.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The host’s jabs, though often bawdy, were usually delivered with enough tongue in cheek to keep high-profile guests comfortable.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • This may have just been Lewis's bawdy sense of humor, and there's no way to independently confirm any affair happened.
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 21 Aug. 2017

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