Antonyms for bawdy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : baw-dee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɔ di

Definition of bawdy

Origin : late 14c., "soiled, dirty, filthy," from bawd + -y (2). Meaning "lewd" is from 1510s, from notion of "pertaining to or befitting a bawd;" usually of language (originally to talk bawdy).
Bawdy Basket, the twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads and obscene books to sell. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]
Related: Bawdily; bawdiness.

adj vulgar, dirty

Example sentences :

His mirth is bawdy jests with the wenches, and, behind the door, bawdy earnest.
Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle

As he went out, however, the conjurer paid him a most bawdy compliment.
Extract from : « La Ronge Journal, 1823 » by George Nelson

I will sing a bawdy song, sir, because your verjuice face is melancholy, to make liquor go down glib.
Extract from : « The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. » by Thomas Dekker

I am sick of chattering, playing dice, going to bawdy houses, and making vain reports to the Florentine Wool-staplers.
Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

So one laughed, and the other cried fie: the third said I was a bawdy captain; and there was all I could get of them.
Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15) » by W. Carew Hazlitt

After all, Ambrose, scarcely a step closer, could recall clearly every word of the bawdy tales!
Extract from : « G-r-r-r...! » by Roger Arcot

By my troth, Ill go with thee to the lanes end: if bawdy talk offend you, well have very little of it.
Extract from : « Measure for Measure » by William Shakespeare

A more likely cause is the second story in the Letter, the visit to the bawdy house.
Extract from : « A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope » by Colley Cibber

In wine shops and gambling hells and bawdy houses—that's where they live!
Extract from : « The Bath Keepers, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) » by Charles Paul de Kock

That a saloon with a sign reading "Family Entrance" on its side door invariably has a bawdy house upstairs.
Extract from : « The American Credo » by George Jean Nathan

Synonyms for bawdy

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