Lewd or obscene talk or writing.
1His interest lies in his anecdote, in his malevolent insinuation, in his bawdry.
2The bike is no more an incentive to bawdry than is a wheelbarrow.
3He with the red hair is Guy Tabarie; they are sworn brothers in bawdry and larceny.
4He was able to do it by means of a third party who was first in the bawdry business.
5Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration.
6Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
7Nothing agrees so naturally with his fancy as bawdry, which he dispenses in small pittances to continue his reader still in an appetite for more.
8"HE'S FOR A JIG or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps."