bawdy

Lewdly funny stuff

Bawdy describes humor or entertainment that deals with sex in a cheerfully crude way—ribald jokes, lusty songs, innuendo-laden comedy.

The tone is earthy and exuberant rather than subtle or shocking: a bawdy limerick, the bawdy humor of Shakespeare's comedies.

Bawdy suggests the tavern more than the gutter—vulgar but good-natured.

obscene

smutty

Obscene or indecent

profane · foul · explicit · indecent · salacious · scatological · gross · nasty · offensive · improper

humor

risqué

Bordering on improper

racy · earthy · saucy · naughty · crude · coarse · vulgar · jesting · irreverent · banter

erotic

lusty

Vigorously healthy, often amorous

provocative · sultry · steamy · titillating · suggestive · spicy · sizzling · amorous · passionate · torrid

Categories
Opposites
sexual content and propriety

bawdyclean

Free of soil

wholesome · G-rated · decent · chaste · innocent

moral character of expression

bawdyproper

Socially appropriate

decorous · respectable · seemly · genteel · refined

Phrases
Family

bawdiness, bawd, bawdier, bawdiest, bawdy house

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13