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What does bawdy mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Soiled, dirty. [from 14th Century]
  2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [from 15th Century]
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Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums.
The book fails to portray the bawdy and contentious woman who wanted always to be on center stage.
The act got a big laugh at the annual event, and the bawdy tone spread throughout the evening as honorees and presenters told naughty jokes.
We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move.
He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic.
Our curiosity was aroused by the gleeful squeals and ripples of bawdy laughter emanating from the crowd.

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