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Recent Examples of porny 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porny
Adjective
  • Why 'Shrinking' Is a Parents-Only Watch The themes, relationships, and conversations in this show are primarily adult in nature.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Adjective
  • The truth about our involvement in Ukraine to oppose Russia is obscene.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The amount of cash being tossed around is obscene, and that’s part of what makes the show guiltily watchable.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Especially because some of her own early roles, such as the 1998 erotic thriller Wild Things (opposite Neve Campbell) could be judged.
    Liz McNeil, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Isabelle Huppert For all of her astonishing work with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, and Hong Sang-soo over the last 50 years, Huppert has been nominated for an Academy Award just once, for her performance in Paul Verhoeven’s erotic thriller Elle (2016).
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • However, these arrangements were not mere shakedowns; they were anchored in strategic diplomacy and geopolitical calculus, rather than vulgar profiteering.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Her Facebook and email had been flooded with vulgar, inflammatory responses.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Curate the mood with all five senses in mind: Sight – Turn down the lights, add candles, or use a blindfold to heighten anticipation in the sexiest way.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Poles needs to find difference-makers, nasty offensive linemen, game-wrecking defensive linemen, ravenous pass rushers … again, the Bears have a lot of needs.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Stacey woke up with a nasty hangover from the night prior.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And this particular mouthful may have been really foul.
    James Doubek, NPR, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Two-way player Drew Peterson later entered the mix after Porzingis picked up his fifth foul midway through the third quarter.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Porny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porny. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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