Meaning of Raunchiness | Babel Free

Definitions

The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation.

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“But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double⟳ bill, Twice Around the Park⟳, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV.”

“Not unexpectedly, we find⟳ here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy.”

“During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash⟳ drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast.”

“For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure⟳. His Playboy Clubs were open⟳ to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight⟳ censorship.”

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