Raunchy and irreverent

Usage examples of ribald.

I would fain tickle his long ears with ribald rhyme, and hearken to the barbarous braying forth of his asinine reflections!

He stood up and strode toward the bawd, ignoring the shouts and ribald comments.

As the two ships came within hailing distance the crews swarmed into the rigging and lined the bulwarks to shout ribald banter across the water.

There had been a ribald joke passed around when Boone Markland married wispy little Annie Lou Breen.

Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.

Laying her head in her rounded arms she wept, until distant shouts of ribald revelry roused her to her own danger.

He was well aware that this operation was being viewed on the security cams, could imagine the guards watching with interest and ribald jocularity.

He was the one who had been kind to her when the cook and his assistants were down making ribald jokes in very bad taste.

They were married by a justice of the peace in a three-minute ceremony and then were swept off by Al and his wife for a wedding luncheon, Al making ribald remarks about the amount of Dom Perignon Keith was consuming.

The troopers in the back of the truck and the heavy machine-gunner craned forward, grinning and calling ribald comment.

Jones was drunker than anybody, reeling about the room, good-naturedly banging the men on the back, kissing the ladies' hands, singing songs rather too ribald for the tastes of the church crowdalthough like good Christians they forgave him when they discovered the quality of his liquorand buttonholing community leaders to express his confidence in the American way and the blessings it had brought to him on this Christmas Eve.

Since the Japs ap-peared illogically unwilling to surrender, the naval bombarders set about annihilating them with an oddly good-humored, ribald ferocity.

Comstock had spent twenty years using his congressionally mandated (and constitutionally quite ques­tionable) powers to persecute zealously anyone who dealt in contraceptive devices, pregnancy abortions, ribald literature and photographs, and anything else that met his rather expan­sive definition of “obscene.

When I think of a perfectly good, well-behaved ship consorting with ribald, rowdy actors .

Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.