as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene
the sheer raunch of the movie earned it a NC-17 rating
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Recent Examples of raunch
Over the course of one outrageous trip, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past resurfaces, and there are enough sparks, raunch, and romance to change all their lives in unexpected ways.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 June 2024
While these outros could easily fall into raunch or being explicit, Carpenter uses wit as her restraint.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
The Country Bear Jamboree had a very oddball vaudevillian energy, its songs brimming with violence and raunch, all of it played for hyuks.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 June 2024
While these outros could easily fall into raunch or being explicit, Carpenter uses wit as her restraint.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
The Country Bear Jamboree had a very oddball vaudevillian energy, its songs brimming with violence and raunch, all of it played for hyuks.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raunch
Noun
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Miss Manners is relieved not to be asked what to do about that vulgarity.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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In short, when faced with a genuine choice between civility and decency versus vulgarity and indecency, most Americans who voted in the 2024 elections opted for the latter.Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
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In short: Your former co-worker needs to cut this [obscenity redacted] out.Anna Holmes, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Why do opponents use an obscenity in their signs? Jeanne Woodbury, an activist who works with the lobbying firm Creosote Partners, put up 10 campaign signs around the Phoenix area opposing Proposition 138.Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
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Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023
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Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.Armond White, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
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“Raunch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raunch. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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