raunch
noun
, ˈränch\
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Synonyms for raunch
Synonyms
bawdiness, blueness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grossness, impureness, impurity, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, profanity, raunchiness, ribaldry, smut, smuttiness, vulgarity, wantonness
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Besides the raunch — which is less extreme than much of what flourishes in Hollywood — the New Bad Boys stand apart through their emphasis on character and theater. — Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times, "Bad Boys of Magic trade the birds and bunnies for booze and banter," 16 Aug. 2019 But Support the Girls is not at all the winkingly misogynist raunch-com for dudes that such a premise might imply. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "The 21 best movies of 2018," 14 Dec. 2018 Judd Apatow’s entire oeuvre is based on transplanting rom-com tropes into movies aimed more explicitly at the guy-heavy raunch-com audience. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Why romantic comedies matter," 29 Aug. 2018 There’s the bro-friendly raunch-com variety, launched by The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005; its apex, as far as romcom material goes, is probably 2007’s Knocked Up and 2008’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Netflix’s totally delightful Set It Up proves just how durable the romcom formula is," 29 June 2018 All those big-haired 1980s power ballads, once a guilty pleasure, prove well-suited to the high-gloss camp and sexless raunch of rock opera. — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Tina': Theater Review," 17 Apr. 2018 But Sarah Marshall arrived on the heels of hit raunch comedies Knocked Up and Wedding Crashers, whose portrayals of women as either humorless or vapid don't hold up. — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, "10 years later, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' is still one of the best modern rom-coms," 16 Apr. 2018 Like the Apatovian feminist raunch, 30 Rock peddled female-forward humor men could understand — woman as spinster, catty, self-deprecating; woman as cheese-loving nerd. — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, "Kay Cannon ponders the dilemma of making the big-budget comedy more feminist.," 1 Apr. 2018 In reference to Haddish' performance, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers wrote: And get ready for Haddish - a Category 5 hurricane of laughs - who turns wild child Dina into a catalyst for raunch unleashed. — The Tylt, cleveland.com, "Biggest Golden Globes snub: Tiffany Haddish or Gal Gadot?," 12 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'raunch.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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