racily vernacular language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Only Clive and Kenna talked racily, but in jerks, of cattle, fruit-blight, mules, and white ants. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Meanwhile, in his vividly and racily written Princi - ples of Psychology (1890) William James presented the findings of the “new psychology” — but not without critical reservations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The observations are throughout racily humorous, and those who have within a few years visited 'the Cradle of Art' cannot fail to recognize, as hit off with no sparing hand, more than one American notoriety. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Smith seemed to be in the highest spirits, talking incessantly, describing his sudden descent on Firtop Farm and his interview with the farmer so racily that his mother laughed gently, and even Kate, for all her anxiety, smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Some of his recommendations are racily colloquial. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
I am indebted to this racily-written work for other ideas in this chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
Lord Camden is said to have learned Spanish, merely to enjoy Don Quixote more racily. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
The historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote racily of these events at the time of their occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03] Reference
One of the starters, a cassoulet rather racily served in a Kilner jar, actually drew oohs and aahs. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Without dignity we may write clearly, or nervously, or racily, but we have not attained to a style. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
After two years in prison and two racily confessional books, he is, as they say, a reformed character. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
Fields, the same street in which his successor, Lord Guildford, had the establishment so racily described by his brother, Roger North. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
During Thursday's presentation, he described the Jonas Brothers as "God's favorite virgins" and racily commented on Aguilera's physique. From Wordnik.com. [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference
He had always talked well and racily, that Ralph knew, and in this power he now recognised a temptation to which he feared that his future father-in-law had succumbed. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark Night's Work] Reference
And after many days, and after (I suppose) much fruitless toil on the part of my friend, the volume was returned to me with this single comment, "It seems very racily written.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914] Reference
The subject of permitting women to preach in Methodist pulpits was incidentally, but rather racily discussed at the Methodist ministers 'meeting in New York city a few days since. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
Ashley Bouder in a similarly rippling one-looking as if she's oiled her joints, and behaving extra-racily, with her hair in its (usually disguised) everyday coiffure of a short bob with bangs. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
They had each a dissolving grain of contempt for women compelled by their delicacy to spoil that kind of story which demands the piquant accompaniment to flavour it racily and make it passable. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
It is upon topics of this unpromising kind, and from the very effort, perhaps, to dignity and enliven them, that the peculiar characteristics of an orator are sometimes most racily brought out. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference
I told all my anecdotes so racily that his features expressed the pleasure I was affording him, and when we rose from the table he shook me by the hand, and told me he had not had so agreeable a dinner since he had been at. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
I told all my anecdotes so racily that his features expressed the pleasure I was affording him, and when we rose from the table he shook me by the hand, and told me he had not had so agreeable a dinner since he had been at Soleure. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
And yet this theme is underlaid with an emotion so vital, the emotion of a wild free life, and invested with a pathos so poignant of the quick passing of all good things, that no understanding heart can but be profoundly moved by that pathos and racily rejoiced at that wildness. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
But when the Baronne de Vibray put herself out to grass, as she racily phrased it, and spent a few weeks at Querelles, her estate close to the château of Beaulieu, nothing pleased her better than to take her place again in the delightful company of the Marquise de Langrune and her friends. From Wordnik.com. [Fantômas] Reference
To hit that happy mean of rightness amid the mixed occupations of a home-mother and a fishwife, to be in especial both so bravely stripped below and so perfectly enveloped above as the deep-wading, far-striding, shrimp-netting, crab-gathering matrons or maidens who played, waist-high, with the tides and racily quickened the market, was to make grace thoroughly practical and discretion thoroughly vivid. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
A racily impudent guide to the Viennese underworld. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
And he spoke the vernacular so racily. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Doll] Reference
A racily written, exciting tale of the South. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
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