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US
/ˈɹeɪsinəs/
]
NOUN
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a strong odor or taste property
the pungency of mustard
the sharpness of strange spices
the raciness of the wine
the sulfurous bite of garlic - behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
How To Use raciness In A Sentence
- Parts of the evening had a degree of raciness the stage might not have seen before. A Song and Dance to Celebrate Alvin Ailey
- Her personal adventures were poured into nine bestselling books whose raciness and brio took the publishing world by surprise. The Times Literary Supplement
- We're doing the interview and whatever raciness they want to put in there, we'll run it.
- The libretto was re-written for raciness and local flavour and sung in English with surtitles, which seems redundant but was surprisingly handy.
- Mr. Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. The Portrait of a Lady
- That excerpt is also a good indication of the clip's raciness. VIDEO: Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski Skewers Pop Starlets
- In response to the general 'raciness' of the photos, he said, Billy Ray Says He Wasn't There to Cover Miley's Back
- Its jazzy recreation of fast London life played on Soutra Gilmour's shiny steel set captures the impulsive raciness of contemporary living.
- My lovely friend Kelly, upon hearing that I was going bra shopping after three years in nursing bras, hooked me up with 14 sets of bras and panties - a wonderful variety of colours, laciness, raciness, and sex appeal. Archive 2009-05-01
- It was this raciness, allied to his remarkable facility with languages and a relish for the unconventional – perhaps a distaste for the conventional as well – that led him into some of the byways of Francophone literature, including the crique-craque tradition of Haitian folk fables, which he would assert were superior to those of La Fontaine, especially to anyone who expressed the opposite view. Translation