risque
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
risque
adj 1: 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}, {juicy},
{naughty}, {racy}, {risque}, {spicy}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Risqu'e \Ris`qu['e]"\, a. masc., Risqu'ee \Ris`qu['e]e"\, a.
fem., (r[-e]s`k[asl]"). [F., p.p. of risquer to risk.]
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety;
dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or
of doubtful morality; as, a risqu['e] story. --Henry Austin.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "risque":
Rabelaisian, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, broad,
calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing,
damnatory, daring, denunciatory, dirty, dysphemistic, epithetic,
erotic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, foul,
fulminatory, gross, imprecatory, improper, indecent, indecorous,
maledictory, obscene, off color, off-color, profane, purple, racy,
raw, ribald, risky, salacious, salty, scabrous, scatologic,
scurrile, scurrilous, sexy, shady, spicy, suggestive, unrefined,
vile, vituperative, wicked
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