How to Use bawdy in a Sentence

bawdy

adjective

• But this being 2017 and all, a screenshot of the bawdy tweet lives on.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2017
• The news has prompted fans and haters alike to chew over the bawdy show's legacy.
  — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• 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
• This is an all ages show, so the humor was bawdy but never raunchy.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2019
• The outfit served bawdy, vibes, and lewks all at the same time—the fashion trifecta.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 7 July 2021
• People called her the Lenny Bruce of Yale because of her bawdy sense of humor.
  — Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In contrast, Byrnes and Legg seemed to have been bawdy, bumbling young men who were in way over their heads.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And the tactic is catchy enough to almost completely distract from the song’s bawdy premise.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
• The fan got their bearings, and Nasty dove right back into her brash and bawdy performance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• He’s also joined onstage for a song with bawdy country singer Trey Lewis.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• It’s stupid, bawdy, low-stakes fun that knows its audience, always a virtue.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 20 May 2021
• 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
• Many are bawdy, hilarious, the sort of stuff Lego would never touch.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• There are three shows nightly, which are rumored to get progressively more bawdy than the last.
  — Caro Clark, GQ, 25 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Among the names, which are all bawdy, punny, or glam, is one contestant that stands out: Victoria Scone.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Mexican band known as Los Strwck made a string of mother-in-law jokes into a bawdy cumbia song for the title song the group’s 1970 album.
  — Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2019
• Alexia’s plan to book her ideal wedding venue hits a snag; Lisa hosts a bawdy slumber party.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• 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
• Marie-Laure de Noailles was the epicenter of the avant-garde in early-20th-century Paris, a bawdy and daring muse and a patron to the most important artists.
  — Lisa Vreeland, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2018
• Even in this moving, bawdy, open-wound of a book, O’Connor’s motivations remain a jumble.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
• The humor is again bountifully bawdy: There are more than a couple of butt jokes, for example.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024