Crossword clues for bawdiness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bawdiness
Bawdiness \Bawd"i*ness\, n. Obscenity; lewdness.
Wiktionary
bawdiness
n. 1 The state or characteristic of being bawdy. 2 A bawdy remark.
WordNet
bawdiness
n. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn: obscenity, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity]
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?