Synonyms for risqué

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ri-skey; French rees-key

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈskeɪ; French risˈkeɪ

Top 10 synonyms for risqué

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Définition of risqué

Origin : "tending toward impropriety," 1867, from French risqué, past participle of risquer "to risk" (see risk (v.)).

adj improper, referring to sex

Example sentences :

O my dearest, dearest life, let me beseech you not to run a risque of this consequence.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

But however that be, a man must run the risque, for he must preserve his honour.
Extract from : « The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling » by Henry Fielding

You can give Mrs. Blair all the risque Paris gossip at dinner.
Extract from : « McAllister and His Double » by Arthur Train

He accepted the Wager, and won it at the Risque of his Life.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II » by Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz

Here sex is exploited to the point of the risque and sometimes beyond it.
Extract from : « The Nervous Housewife » by Abraham Myerson

So that in writing to you I run the risque of making a breech in the commandment.
Extract from : « Andrew Marvell » by Augustine Birrell

But I will not risque to say on which they dwelt with most relish, ye discourse or ye dinner.
Extract from : « Sabbath in Puritan New England » by Alice Morse Earle

Consider what a risque 219 the Government runs of losing a number of valuable settlers.
Extract from : « Glimpses of the Past » by W. O. Raymond

His companions looked upon the enterprize as too hazardous, and could not think at all of running such a risque.
Extract from : « The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1 » by Robert Forbes

In so doing they could have made a summer campaign without running the risque of any misfortune.
Extract from : « The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1 » by Robert Forbes

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