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111raciness — n (all of speech or writing) piquancy, pungency, spiciness, saltiness, race; liveliness, spiritedness, spirit, verve, vigorousness, briskness; suggestiveness, lewdness, indelicacy, ribaldry, A rchaic. bawdry; earth iness, rawness, coarseness,… …
112ribaldry — n 1. scurrility, scurrilousness, abusiveness, blackguardism, profaneness; indecency, shamelessness, suggestivity, immodesty, indelicacy; offen siveness, grossness, rankness, repulsiveness, repulsivi ty; vulgarity, vulgarness, obsceneness,… …
113scurrility — n 1. abusiveness, blackguardism, pro faneness, scurrilousness; vulgarity, vulgarness, ob sceneness, lewdness, salaciousness; grossness, rankness, vileness, foulness, filthiness, nastiness, Sl. raun chiness; indecency, immorality, shamelessness,… …
114solecism — n 1.(of grammar) substandard use, incorrectness, misusage, faulty syntax, misconstruction, anacoluthon; barbarism, corruption, cacology; mal apropism, spoonerism. 2. gaffe, gaucherie, faux pas, stupidity, impropriety, indiscretion, indelicacy,… …
115vulgarity — n 1. ignorance, unsophistication, unawareness, naTvete, naTveness; gaucheness, gaucherie, uncouthness, crassness, rudeness, boorishness, brut ishness, rawness; ill breeding, unmannerliness; i 11 manneredness, uncivility, uncivilness,… …
116risqué — ris•qué [[t]rɪˈskeɪ[/t]] adj. daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; off color: a risqué story[/ex] • Etymology: 1865–70; < F, ptp. of risquer to risk …
117Beaumont, Francis — (1584 1616), and Fletcher, John (1579 1625) Poets and dramatists. As they are indissolubly associated in the history of English literature, it is convenient to treat of them in one place. B. was the s. of Francis B., a Judge of the Common… …
118Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of — (1638 1706) Poet, was one of the dissolute and witty courtiers of Charles II., and a friend of Sir C. Sedley (q.v.), in whose orgies he participated. He was, however, a patron of literature, and a benefactor of Dryden in his later and less… …
119indecency — /ɪnˈdisənsi/ (say in deesuhnsee) noun (plural indecencies) 1. the quality of being indecent. 2. impropriety; indelicacy or immodesty. 3. obscenity. 4. an indecent act, remark, etc …
120risqué — /ˈrɪskeɪ/ (say riskay), /rɪsˈkeɪ/ (say ris kay) adjective daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety: a risqué story. {French, past participle of risquer risk} …
