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As the jugs of wine were passed round and the atmosphere grew more ribald, Bligh wondered if this was just going to be some kind of orgy.
Some of the poetry, written between 1220 and 1250, was blatantly ribald and sensual.
Three teenage girls fell about laughing and started shrieking ribald comments.
Most students are responsible and prudential and thus not as ribald as Wolfe makes them out to be.
And in attempting to mimic the Greek life as much as possible, some deliciously ribald elements have been included.
See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.
The material is frequently ribald, often racy, and always laced with profanity.
In a word, it was a most pleasant evening, enlivened with ribald laughter from a group of geriatric golfers!
His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar.
My questions to other flying crew members brought ribald responses and suggestions of a quite unhelpful nature.
Not all great Jamaican music is serious, and this infectious 70s hit is ribald reggae at its finest.
Unfortunately, what was once irascibly ribald years ago is now so sedate as to be comatose.
The language of the hymn held a subversive appeal for the working classes, and her ribald treatments of these school assembly faves is irresistible.
But it did lead Paul Citroën to produce a ribald drawing of followers of Itten's Mazdaznan hocus pocus vomiting and defecating across the page.
It inspired the best line in Birmingham, from Boris Johnson, the ribald Tory mayor of London.
An obscene puppet show and a podgy stripper who kept up a patter of ribald jokes also proved popular.
The soldiers have a repertoire of their own, largely consisting of new, often ribald, lyrics to older tunes.
Mary loved a good giggle, a good gossip, a ribald clever joke, live theatre, the daily cryptic crossword, CBC radio, and lively discussion.
Monty had eclectic taste in prose and poetry and would often be seen reading the very ribald poems of the American poet Charles Bukowski.
You heard their ribald laugh as they clutched the moving bag that the Count threw to them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We must do our best to be frivolous and ribald, and supply a proper foreground.
A cry of surprise was raised, and drowned in a volley of ribald inquiry and chaff.
But their responses are not always well timed, and the notes of the jackdaw sound uncommonly like the scoffings of the ribald.
His profanity is more raucous and vicious than the Northerner's, his ebriety more ribald, brutal, and swinish.
He that possesses her must keep her within bounds, not permitting her to break out in ribald satires or soulless sonnets.
Now there happened to be among them a ribald fellow, whose name was Ctesippus, and who came from Same.
Mr. Harding showed that he had a large repertoire of ribald rhyme.
Insulted by a lazy ribald With idle pipe and vesture piebald?
But yesternight that ribald mocked him with his lack of scars.
All his life Alexander had been the victim of the most ribald calumnies.
Escalator is a ribald charivari at the marriage of Righteousness and Virtue.
Logan raised his voice to repeat the words and to add a ribald comment.
The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him.
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