The word "racy" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something exciting, daring, or provocative, especially in terms of its content, style, or language. For example, you could say: "This novel has a racy plot with many unexpected twists and turns".
On Tuesday nights after The Voice's results show we find Heartbreaker, a show about a world-renowned heart surgeon (Melissa George) with a racy personal life.
In Saarland, a tiny state between France and Luxembourg, the CDU is about to enter into a racy ménage à trois.
He had invented a typing machine so she could write him racy letters without her maid's assistance.
His book is a diverting and racy read, though accuracy is sometimes sacrificed to a good story.
Privately, one regulator admits that some insurers are "doing very racy investments to get yield".There is a danger that this risk will eventually find its way back into the banking system.
One of the plans it has cooked up for Generali, a lacklustre Italian insurer (see article), has more to do with Italian political-economic skulduggery than with business logic, it seems.Italy's competition watchdog anyway suspects the bank of being a little too racy.
Nigeria produces a lot of racy, low-budget videos, but rampant piracy and the audience's shallow pockets make big features uneconomic.
Around 8m text message votes were cast".Super Girl", as the show is commonly known, appealed mainly because of its racy format (at least until the authorities began insisting on more downbeat folksy songs) and the pleasure that many enjoy from watching amateur singers embarrass themselves.
The phenomenal growth in the trading volume of futures essentially risk-management instruments in commodities and financial instruments—has far outpaced that in equities in recent years, and brokerage firms have ridden the wave.Ironically, Refco's public image has not conformed to this racy stereotype.
It was also the publishing centre for the racy philosophical tracts that were too hot to be printed in France or England.
In recent years, however, the profession has been really rather racy.
