Sentence examples for risqué from inspiring English sources

The word "risqué" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is slightly indecent or sexually suggestive, often in a playful or provocative manner. Example: "The comedian's risqué jokes had the audience laughing, but some were taken aback." Alternatives include "suggestive" or "provocative."

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risqué

adjective

Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate.

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At their most risqué they might get about in spangly cowboy boots.

The story of two struggling musicians who flee the mob and a Chicago winter dressed as women in an all-girl musical band was more risqué at the time than is now realised.

Bedfordshire University's Clearing campaign, which adopted the risqué hashtag #pathtobeds, raised a few eyebrows this summer.

Its London premiere caused an even bigger sensation than Petit's first visit, audiences finding it thrillingly risqué.

I'd listen to his shows, half-grasping the more risqué material and laughing nervously at the stream of Pope jokes.

And Chief Wu's risqué line of products?

To the toner-cartridge company that warns its customers not to eat the contents add the fast-food chain that prints "Caution contents hot!" on its coffee cup, the school that disallows playground games, the firm that forbids lunchtime drinking or the garage that bans risqué pin-up calendars.

Most of them are slightly more risqué, and rather less good, than the cartoons screened on television.

Under the ANC, an atmosphere of permissiveness prevails: gay bars and risqué art flourish as nowhere else in Africa.An honest attempt has been made to improve the lives of ordinary South Africans, particularly those who were barred from doing much for themselves under the old regime.

Although a bid for Vanguard failed, he picked up a charter airline, Pace, on the cheap, fitting out two Boeing 737s with extra leg room and Hooters' distinctive bulging-eyed owl logo slapped on its tail.Each Hooters flight is staffed by "Hooters Girls", whose attire could be considered risqué only in the most isolated parts of America.

So Squaw Peak is now set to be renamed after Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman in the American army to be killed in combat.Names with risqué connotations, be they deliberate or coincidental, fare a little better.

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