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Bordering on impropriety
Answer for the clue "Bordering on impropriety ", 6 letters:
risque
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Etymology 1 a. (context US English) (alternative form of risqué English) Etymology 2 n. (obsolete spelling of risk English)
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Risqué is the third studio album by American disco band Chic , released on Atlantic Records on July 30, 1979. One of the records that defined the disco era , the album became highly influential not only within the movement, but also in other styles such ...
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adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue , gamy , gamey ...
Usage examples of risque.
The guard clapped Roderick on the back and said something in Hornish that sounded encouraging and perhaps a bit risque.
The others have systems also, from Auburn Risque to Simp, the only son of the richest widow in Louisiana, who disbursed of old in Paris ten thousand dollars annually.
She had never much favored the rather risque costume for women espoused by Amanda Bloomer, but she had asked Jason for permission to order one on the chance that she might need it, and it was proving invaluable today.
Pourquoi lui avait-il, par deux fois, rendu un si grand honneur, au risque de faire parler les gens?
One day this young couple accidentally met in the garden, at the end of the two walks which were both bounded by that canal in which Jones had formerly risqued drowning to retrieve the little bird that Sophia had there lost.
Flossie and Lapp bounced around in back like a couple of starstruck adolescents, munching on popcorn and loudly sipping on a bottle of Southern Comfort as they giggled nonstop over private -- usually risque -- jokes.
The barroom decorations, the neon signs, the helix machines, the risque holograms were totally absent.
The rack seemed sad and forlorn, if emotions could be ascribed to newsstands, and he found himself wondering what had happened to the risque fortune cookies in Ben Stockley's desk drawer.