The crowd laughed at the comedian's occasional ribald joke. From LearnThat.org.
A final thought -- I would suggest that the Judicial Council refrain from using the term "ribald" to describe the jokes in question. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Thalacker: "Have You Heard the One About the Judge Who Told Ribald Jokes ..."] Reference
He tells ribald stories, then cackles like a schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Reconstructed] Reference
Lawford cast on the ribald Milt a somewhat angry glance. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
Cigarettes must have been smoked, ribald stories exchanged. From Wordnik.com. [The Night We Saw Shehenshah] Reference
They have a similar smooth charm and fondness for ribald jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
They could hear the men's voices in ribald laughter and singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Let me listen to the ribald jeers which were flung upon my Lord. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Mr. Harding showed that he had a large repertoire of ribald rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
She heard the shouting of the ribald crew as they passed down the road. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The ribald jests continued, to Simon's annoyance, until Fra Tomasso rang his bell. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I understood their speech, but beyond ribald jests at our expense they said nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Of the ribald curses which Catullus hurls after his departing Lesbia, there is nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Afraid some ribald person will remember this, and vulgarly connect it with the discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891] Reference
Voice-over: Friends say it's just that he has a "ribald sense of humor, 20 years out of date.". From Wordnik.com. [Arnold Reloaded] Reference
I turned my back on him with contempt; but, his ribald remark made me feel all the more nervous. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
We can understand the ribald buffoonery of LUCIAN, who first invented this species of burlesque. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The ribald versifiers flouted it in metrical lampoons whose burden was -- "The man I left behind me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
With her heavy makeup, revealing blouses and occasionally ribald comments, Lewinsky did not really fit in. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
From the camps of the workmen come ribald songs and jests, The presence of death has no effect on the living. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Imagine my thoughts as I left parents and friends to face the ribald laughter of those who did not understand. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
In only a little while the silly jokes and ribald laughter of the two men floated back to those in the last wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
I have heard them singing round the camp fires in the starlight, but it was hymns that they sang, not ribald songs. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
But there was that about Billy which checked Maggie's ribald jeers, and the mother's question as to where he was going. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Its virtue is a tough compassion with no easy moralizing and without shirking the tragedy (or the ribald humor) of these women. From Wordnik.com. [Is Broadway Rhythm Back?] Reference
They tossed high their arms, stamped out their torch to blackness, shouted a ribald threat, and were swallowed up by the black mainland. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Never more shall I be able to set foot in club, theatre, or private drawing-room, without being followed by the stares of the inquisitive and the quiet chaff of the ribald!. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
They surrounded her with many a fierce oath and ribald jest, and it was easy to see that they were jealous of her superior cleanliness of person and respectability of character. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
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