pornier; porniest
: of, relating to, involved in, or being pornography

Examples of porny in a Sentence

a collection of porny postcards of the type that American servicemen once brought back from Europe
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Some of the entries were so porny-sounding that the Empress had to dab repeatedly at her tiara — even when the story turned out to be about slipping a Visa into the card-reading machine. Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019 Watching other races required going down one of three avenues: expensive pay-TV packages; a VPN that didn’t always work; or dodgy pirate streams, littered with porny pop-up ads and, likely viruses. Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 4 May 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of porny was in 1961

Dictionary Entries Near porny

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“Porny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porny. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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