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Bawdiness

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bawd·y  (bôd)
adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est
1. Humorously coarse; risqué.
2. Vulgar; lewd.
bawdi·ly adv.
bawdi·ness n.
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Noun1.bawdiness - the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity
indecency - the quality of being indecent
smuttiness, dirtiness - obscenity in speech or writing
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34) Ittmann's study of fertility in mid-Victorian Bradford, Yorkshire, questioned the prevalence of working-class sexual prudery and reticence, pointing to a late nineteenth- century tradition of female bawdiness and open sexual antagonism in Yorkshire.
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It's kind of a high-brow way to wallow in bawdiness.
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