What's the difference between bawdy and salacious?

Bawdy


Definition:

  • (a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
  • (a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cleeve Hill was once the site of a 'bawdy' racecourse, before it was moved down the hill into genteel Cheltenham.
  • (2) One is the British release on Wednesday of a bawdy American comedy about a foul-mouthed soft toy called Ted and the other is a BBC Prom celebrating the swingin' music of the golden era of Hollywood and Broadway songwriting.
  • (3) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
  • (4) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
  • (5) Like: ‘I don’t have bipolar disorder but I am a little borderline’, and then playing Borderline.” She said she would “rather die than work in Vegas” and in another bawdy joke asked the crowd to guess the punchline to her joke: “What’s the difference between a car tyre and 365 used condoms?”, wiping a $100 note between her legs and offering it as a prize.
  • (6) And the best of Phife’s verses always tended to be based in rowdy, bawdy expression.
  • (7) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
  • (8) But if the nation fell in love with Tennant playing the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, then arguably his biggest break came a year before when, as a virtual unknown, he landed the lead role in BBC3's bawdy mini series, Casanova, created by Russell T Davies – who had just overseen the return of Doctor Who to BBC1, with Christopher Eccleston in the starring role.
  • (9) Before the revolution, it was fashionable among the upper classes to assemble so-called knigi dlya dam ( Ladies’ Books) – a kind of bawdy scrapbook.
  • (10) Many of his later films were musicals, including a bawdy adaptation of the notorious sea shanty "Twas on the Good Ship Venus", which he swore he would document "in its most complete version!"
  • (11) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
  • (12) With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss.
  • (13) But her grandmother, who raised her, was a fine, sometimes bawdy, storyteller.
  • (14) The kind of bawdy, sexually explicit antics that began with Porky's and resurfaced in the teenage and twentysomething-targeted "grossout" movies of the late 90s were extending their hold in films for those a little older.
  • (15) But on Thursday, the news programme, first aired in 1967, suffered a different sort of blow – beaten in the ratings by bawdy ITV2 panel show, Celebrity Juice, hosted by Keith Lemon , the outspoken, some would say insufferable, creation of former Bo' Selecta Leigh Francis.
  • (16) That extreme rarity, a natural rather than thought-out comedian, Joan Sims, who has died aged 71, exuberantly enhanced the bawdiness of one of the British movie industry's biggest successes, the Carry On films.
  • (17) Vic Gatrell's brilliant City of Laughter points to the bawdiness of 18th-century humour in London even – or especially – among the elite (plenty of "low manners in high places" as he nicely puts it).
  • (18) Absalom began life at what you might call the Nuts-magazine end of the 1960s folk revival, knocking out bawdy rugby songs on a debut album even his own website advises you not to listen to; he currently works as a children's entertainer called Professor Absalom who, Ravenscroft notes, "looks a bit like Santa Claus as drawn by Raymond Briggs ".
  • (19) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
  • (20) He bounced back with 2006's Clerks 2 , but a further knock was just around the corner in the shape of 2008's skewed romcom Zack And Miri Make A Porno , Smith's attempt to capitalise on the bawdy Judd Apatow comedies he saw himself as a part of.

Salacious


Definition:

  • (n.) Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
  • (2) "There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better.
  • (3) Documents cite various occasions where players and coaches cursed or flipped each other the bird, as well as “salacious” Super Bowl concerts by Michael Jackson and Prince.
  • (4) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
  • (5) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (6) North Korea has attacked the South's "reptile media" for running salacious reports alleging Kim Jong-un ordered nine performers to be executed to protect his wife's reputation.
  • (7) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
  • (8) "They want to be able to show that which is salacious, that which is sensational… they want to give a sense of the drama of the courtroom."
  • (9) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
  • (10) Much attention was focused on the salacious and graphic details accompanying the independent counsel's findings, which Mr Clinton's advisers believe will be decisive in setting the national mood in which the report is discussed.
  • (11) Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, "worried when the author's sourcing was overtaken by its opposite: gossip, some of it salacious".
  • (12) The purpose of the act was to restrict reporting salacious deatails in divorces.
  • (13) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
  • (14) Last year 40 female political journalists signed a petition complaining of persistent harassment by senior male politicians, such as comments complaining they weren’t showing enough cleavage, text messages asking them out, salacious comments, harassment and being asked after holidays: “Are you tanned all over?” Things have got so bad that a women’s group this week opened a free phone line providing legal advice for women who are victims of harassment by male politicians.
  • (15) They also accuse the salacious romance, itself the subject of controversy after stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux alleged Kechiche bullied them on set , of veering into child porn territory.
  • (16) Some are overtly salacious; others, like 2004’s Precious Boys, sad and soulful.
  • (17) Over the past decade, the agency has been involved in fewer salacious incidents and has moved away from the "good ol' boy" image that dogged it in the past, according to the New York Times.
  • (18) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
  • (19) The genre has become increasingly salacious in the intervening years, as women have revealed ever more intimate details of couplings to papers so grateful for their indiscretions that they shell out thousands of pounds for the privilege of publishing them.
  • (20) Another possibility, the newspaper admitted, was that Leone was not seen as authentically Indian and "no one minds a salacious Caucasian".

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