ribaldry

How To Use ribaldry In A Sentence

• But for the most part, the second half of All the World's a Stage put aside serious concerns in favor of laughter and ribaldry, and showcased the intelligence and heart of Shakespeare Behind Bars veteran Jerry Guenthner.
• But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
• Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry? Heart of the West [Annotated]
• Meanwhile "inebriation in all its most brutal and disgraceful shapes" takes its moral toll upon the masses in the form of vile oaths, imprecations, naughty songs, and pervasive "ribaldry"; thus procedures that are intended to facilitate public participation actually create an "earthly hell" on the deck of the outlaw vessel (405). Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
• Remarriage for widowed individuals beyond childbearing age was traditionally greeted with community ribaldry, since a sexual relationship was being entered into without the end of family-building.
• Auntie (a strong Anne Collins) and her nieces (Ailish Tynan and Helen Williams) injected rather too much ribaldry and suggestiveness into the proceedings; surely this community is rather buttoned up and not so free?
• O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines.
• In Caravaggio's supremely moving work, Ecce Homo (Palazzo Bianco, Genoa), Christ, drooping over His corded hands, submits to cruel ribaldry.
• He composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the bridge-foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter. Anatomy of Melancholy
• In fact, if truth be told, he thoroughly enjoyed the ribaldry though never would he admit that to anyone. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS