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Meanings of ribaldry in English
Usage of ribaldry in English
1
Some are debased by the more serious fault of ribaldry and profaneness.
2
In the first place, he condemns, without mercy, his ribaldry and obscenity.
3
Is it me, the source of all their scorn, their noisy ribaldry?
4
Catherine paid no attention to such ribaldry, and drove on like Phaeton.
5
Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry?
6
Some dissentient voices arose; an attempt at drunken ribaldry, strident hisses, 'Sh!
7
The petitions of the pious were matched by the ribaldry of the profligate.
8
The ribaldry of his conversation moved astonishment even in that age.
9
This supplies the infant population with a large stock-in-trade of ribaldry.
10
Only where the Deltas were motivated by ribaldry, conservatives are driven by rage.
11
Then he brightened, and broke forth into ribaldry like a nightingale.
12
Peace, unfeeling man-youbring your senseless ribaldry to the wrong market.
13
His own feelings forbade ribaldry, and abuse disgusted him, on whichever side employed.
14
Heterodox ribaldry disgusts me, I confess, rather more than orthodox fanaticism.
15
I owe, too, an apology to my readers for introducing all this ribaldry.
16
Held I the thunder, yon ribaldry had been thy last, thou foul-mouthed wretch.'
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