Meanings of raunch in English

Expect a mix of comedy, acrobatics, dance and a touch of raunch.

But, more and more, women are bringing the raunch to the screen.

Photograph: YouTube Every Xmas playlist needs a bit of raunch and Big Cynthia delivers.

There was a good-natured quality to the raunch, like fun was still an erotic idea.

Here, this belter of a track gets an added bolt of rock and roll raunch.

Ultra-raunch rock-'n'-roll pounded through from the room above.

Perhaps in times past, the raunch element was ramped up, when getting your bits out was risque.

With Pie the point was the raunch.

A steamy series with plenty of raunch and romance, one to watch quietly if your housemates embarrass easily.

However, the subtlety with which he once played the raunch card has gone the way of the live DJ.

In this case, the PG-13 rating even dampens down the normally enjoyable raunch factor to a depressingly low level.

What Levy wanted to know was why so many of her sisters thought raunch culture was another form of female empowerment.

Long after many of his peers at the time have faded out, however, Kelly is still known for raunch, with little variation.

He lacked the confidence and discipline to be a triumphant Ali and the smoothness to polish his raunch a la Redd Foxx.

The Republican platform calls for prosecutions of Internet obscenity, and Attorney General John Ashcroft has spoken out against raunch and ribaldry in the past.

The problem might lie in that word "sophisticated." The current trends in film comedies are raunch and juvenilia, the very antithesis of sophistication.