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UK
/ɹˈɔːntʃi/
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[ US /ˈɹɔntʃi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɔntʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
lewd pictures
an indecent gesture
an indecent gesture
obscene telephone calls
salacious limericks -
earthy and sexually explicit
a raunchy novel -
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
dingy linen
grubby little fingers
a grungy kitchen
a miner's begrimed face
grimy hands
How To Use raunchy In A Sentence
- It also gained the distinction of being banned in America - presumably because of all those obscene, ribald, raunchy bits about marriage being a partnership of equals.
- For a reader who knows the primary sources, it is a rich pleasure to see Roman antiquity so thoroughly and feelingly brought back to life. Harris is very modern, very pagan, even raunchy at times, just as the Romans must have been.
- Some interesting extras are included here, mainly segments deemed too raunchy for television.
- Her willingness to be raunchy on screen was a major ingredient of her recipe for success.
- Its little strut of gaminess provides an attitude that is slightly raunchy, but the pool of warm, mellow flavours and faint raspberry note keep it comfortable in any company.
- My disgust toward Megan Fox has nothing to do with her thumbs, and everything to do with the fact that she's just a raunchy, stuck-up brat who had the nerve to compare herself to Alan Alda. Megan Fox is hideously disgusting
- Get sex into the forefront of your mind by reading or watching something more raunchy than you'd normally choose.
- Bradford Council came under fire in 1997 after banning musclemen dance troupe The Chippendales from its venues for being too raunchy - despite the show having no full-frontal nudity.
- Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
- Oh, and don't forget to throw in her younger brother, who wants to lose his virginity at any cost and is always quick to throw in a raunchy joke.