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The trait of behaving in an obscene manner
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bawdiness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn: obscenity , lewdness , salaciousness , salacity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or characteristic of being bawdy. 2 A bawdy remark.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bawdiness \Bawd"i*ness\, n. Obscenity; lewdness.
Usage examples of bawdiness.
Their old-fashioned outlook, their graded snobberies, their mixture of bawdiness and hypocrisy, their extreme gentleness, their deeply moral attitude to life, are all mirrored there.
Surely one man can't be refor the entire neo-puritan movement-isn't it a reaction against the permissivity of the last century, as Victorianism was against the bawdiness of early times?