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Significats de ribaldry en anglès

Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.

Poking fun at the foibles & weaknesses of human sexuality.

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Ús de ribaldry en anglès
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Some are debased by the more serious fault of ribaldry and profaneness.
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In the first place, he condemns, without mercy, his ribaldry and obscenity.
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Is it me, the source of all their scorn, their noisy ribaldry?
Voice of the Fire
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Catherine paid no attention to such ribaldry, and drove on like Phaeton.
Esther
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Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry?
Heart of the West
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Some dissentient voices arose; an attempt at drunken ribaldry, strident hisses, 'Sh!
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
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The petitions of the pious were matched by the ribaldry of the profligate.
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The ribaldry of his conversation moved astonishment even in that age.
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9
This supplies the infant population with a large stock-in-trade of ribaldry.
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Only where the Deltas were motivated by ribaldry, conservatives are driven by rage.
The Guardian
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Then he brightened, and broke forth into ribaldry like a nightingale.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Peace, unfeeling man-youbring your senseless ribaldry to the wrong market.
Jacques Bonneval; Or, The Days of the Dragonnades
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His own feelings forbade ribaldry, and abuse disgusted him, on whichever side employed.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
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Heterodox ribaldry disgusts me, I confess, rather more than orthodox fanaticism.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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I owe, too, an apology to my readers for introducing all this ribaldry.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
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Held I the thunder, yon ribaldry had been thy last, thou foul-mouthed wretch.'
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