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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