Bawdry

He has the prettiest _love-songs_ for maids; so without bawdry, which is strange; with such _delicate burdens_ of "dildos" and "fadings," "jump her and thump her"; ... ❋ Unknown (1900)

Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

He observes that the stanza "may be read as a nonsense-verse replacing some traditional bawdry which is represented by the rest of the song in the [Burns] MS. and MMC; but goose, hen and magpie are all low terms for a woman, and from the ❋ Unknown (1847)

And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Letters Swift wrote to his beloved "Stella" – Esther Johnson – and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, reveal in detail Swift's mixture of bawdry and baby talk. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Regardless how the governor sought to insert notions of bawdry sin and frivolousness with “Las Vegas” and “Disneyland,” the route between LA and Las Vegas will not be made less congested thereby. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other than promoting scripted violence as a spectator sport, fielding accusations of steroid, drug, and sexual abuse among past "Super Stars", McMahon's credentials include wife of WWE's Chairman Vince McMahon, mother of two darling children, Shane and Stephanie, company nepotism at it's very best, all are executive officers and have extensive experience both inside and out of the ring promoting their brand of bawdry entertainment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is no accident that the end of Restoration bawdry coincided precisely with the fullest flowering of literary sadism in England. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. ❋ Unknown (2005)

(Soundbite of music) BARENAKED LADIES: (Singing) Come, sweet Audrey, we must be married or we must live in bawdry. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Provided, quoth Yorick, there is no bawdry in it. — ❋ Unknown (2003)

"I refuse to call it 'obscene,'" said Mr. Gelbart, who pointed to the Lawrence Durrell quotation he'd chosen to preface his adaptation: "It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness." ❋ Unknown (2002)

And I doubt that my youth or innocence suppressed a natural bawdry in Mac—other cousins and uncles were freely ribald in my presence—but for his private reason, I never heard Mac say an obscene word or tell a blue joke. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)

Ephraim John Burford, 'born and educated in the City of London,' is 'currently preparing a book on the rise of organized bawdry in London.' ❋ James, Clive (1983)

Roger Ascham accused Malory of offering "open manslaughter and bold bawdry." ❋ Hodgart, Matthew (1967)

As we all know, bawdry in comedy pleases the god, and I don't think I am prudish; but in Athens, we do keep inside the bounds of blasphemy. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)