Crossword-Solution: RIBALDRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ribaldry | n. | The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “RIBALDRY”
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| Coarse jesting | 1 answer |
| Risquéness | 1 answer |
| What Elizabethan drama abounds in. | 1 answer |
| ribald language or behaviour | 1 answer |
| ribald humor | 4 answers |
| bad form | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIBALDRY (5)
But there was no end to the caricatures, and songs, and all sorts of ribaldry, about the occurrence; and even our party said that, although Mrs.
CHILD’S PLAY THE regret we have for our childhood is not wholly justifiable: so much a man may lay down without fear of public ribaldry; for although we shake our heads over the change, we are not unconscious of the manifold advantages of our new state.
Another poet of the period, with a very different purpose, has left an elegy, in which he darkly hints at and bemoans the fate of the ill-starred young person, whose very uncommon calamity Whitelaw, Dunlop, and Milne thought a fitting subject for buffoonery and ribaldry.
What did happen, according to Sir Simonds d'Ewes, was that the hangman, a coarse ruffian with a distorted sense of humour, dressed himself in bands and cuffs of yellow colour, but no one heeded his ribaldry; only in after days none of either sex used the yellow starch, and the fashion grew generally to be detested.
Rapscallions, in penitential fires, You'll rue the ribaldry that from you falls! To-morrow afternoon the law expires.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1946–2001).