as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene
the sheer raunch of the movie earned it a NC-17 rating
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Recent Examples of raunch
Over the course of one outrageous trip, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past resurfaces, and there are enough sparks, raunch, and romance to change all their lives in unexpected ways.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 June 2024
While these outros could easily fall into raunch or being explicit, Carpenter uses wit as her restraint.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
The Country Bear Jamboree had a very oddball vaudevillian energy, its songs brimming with violence and raunch, all of it played for hyuks.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 June 2024
While these outros could easily fall into raunch or being explicit, Carpenter uses wit as her restraint.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 May 2024
The Country Bear Jamboree had a very oddball vaudevillian energy, its songs brimming with violence and raunch, all of it played for hyuks.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raunch
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Policy proposals aside, there's been name-calling, vulgarity, and plain old meanness.Jon LaPook, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Musk shared several anti-Harris advertisements, including one funded by Musk’s pro-Trump political action committee that refers to the Vice President using misogynistic vulgarities.Kali Hays, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
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These days, when people seem eager to scream obscenities at passing strangers, who can believe that anyone would take the trouble to be so subtle with an insult?Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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The Wexner opened during the height of the culture wars, when the [Robert] Mapplethorpe show in Cincinnati was getting the museum director there prosecuted for obscenity.Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023
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Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.Armond White, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
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“Raunch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raunch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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