How To Use Racily In A Sentence
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Only Clive and Kenna talked racily, but in jerks, of cattle, fruit-blight, mules, and white ants.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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It may read thin here; it would smack racily in the playroom.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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In the main it is a catalogue of racily written anecdotes that describe the most notorious of the North's drug godfathers.
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And yet this theme is underlaid with an emotion so vital, the emotion of a wild free life, and invested with a pathos so poignant of the quick passing of all good things, that no understanding heart can but be profoundly moved by that pathos and racily rejoiced at that wildness.
Irish Plays and Playwrights
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Even if Nichols cheats a bit about a few details, he makes his main characters tragicomically true to life, racily human enough to wrest sympathy from the sourest souls.
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I think I never met a book more "racily" written -- in a special sense of the word -- than _The Progress of Prudence_ (MILLS AND BOON).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
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Smith seemed to be in the highest spirits, talking incessantly, describing his sudden descent on Firtop Farm and his interview with the farmer so racily that his mother laughed gently, and even Kate, for all her anxiety, smiled.
Round the World in Seven Days
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racily vernacular language
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I'd also like to report, on a lighter note, that this song racily mentions ‘making love’ at a time when the Boys were still supposedly buzz-cut neuters without a prurient interest in their hearts.
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The observations are throughout racily humorous, and those who have within a few years visited 'the Cradle of Art' cannot fail to recognize, as hit off with no sparing hand, more than one American notoriety.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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I even dug out an ancient pair of gold sandals and wore them, rather racily and inappropriately, to work.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other, Ramadan TV talk shows on state-sponsored television featuring racily dressed female hosts discussing intimate sex secrets with celebrities have sparked outrage from conservatives, denouncing what they call the decadence that is sweeping the nation.
Statesman - AP Sports
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It is racily written and holds the reader's attention as well as any good detective or science fiction novel.
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But if you think this 55-year-old, who is zipping along racily, is doing it for fun, think again.
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The historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote racily of these events at the time of their occurrence.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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I am indebted to this racily-written work for other ideas in this chapter.
Across China on Foot
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Meanwhile, in his vividly and racily written Princi - ples of Psychology (1890) William James presented the findings of the “new psychology” — but not without critical reservations.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Racily turned out young women subbed little black dresses for the customary lawn - party whites.
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In recent years, Mr. Prince has blurred the line between his art and his collecting through his purchases of racily illustrated pulp-fiction novels from the 1950s.
An Artist Amasses a Rare Collection
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Though racily told, at times the plot stretches credence as well as patience.
