(n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
(a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marketed as a ribald date movie with appeal to both genders, the film was maybe aiming for the crowd that embraced the Britcom I Give It a Year last February.
(2) This was greeted by loud and ribald laughter from Labour MPs.
(3) What with his flair for introspection, his gift for ribald parody, his excoriating candour, his contempt for 'phoneyness', his weakness for soliloquy and his desperate conviction that the time is out of joint, Jimmy Porter is the completest young pup in our literature since Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
(4) We're trendy as hell right now Del Seymour A $3.5m museum telling the area’s ribald history of vice, jazz and defiance opened on Thursday on the site of a former Sizzler steak house.
(5) What the collected metadata let us discover Let’s jump straight to a more ribald example.
(6) In her letter to Schumer , Sarah Clements referenced media speculation that Houser may have specifically targeted the ribald comedy , due to a hatred of women.
(7) Following his most recent tweet on the benefits cap that comes into action on Monday , he may be inclined to revisit the ribald advice.
(8) Now form a band" – (that was Sideburns, another punk zine from 1977), its example spawned a slew of followers – including Jamming!, Burnt Offering and Chainsaw (which featured ribald cartoons from a young Andrew Marr) – and established a culture of DIY underground rock criticism that thrives to this day, both in print and online.
Ribaldry
Definition:
(n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Would any coalition minister dare use the phrase on a genuinely public platform without expecting raspberries and ribaldry?
(2) He enjoyed ribaldry about Jews; he took comfort in contempt for Jews.
(3) I told them we had had quite enough devastatingly bad publicity: party members had stopped canvassing because of ribaldry on the doorsteps.
(4) News of the books provoked ribaldry on Twitter among those following the events, with jokes that Snowden won't be allowed to leave the airport until he finishes reading them.