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raunchy

adjective

Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

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Word Facts

Word length
7
Starts with
R
Ends with
Y
Contains
AU
Scrabble score
15
CEFR level
C1

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈɹɔːntʃi

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Meaning

Definitions

adjective

  1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

    “A miner's begrimed face”

adjective

  1. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

    “Lewd pictures”

adjective

  1. Earthy and sexually explicit

    “A raunchy novel”

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Example Sentences

A miner's begrimed face
Dingy linen
Grimy hands
Grubby little fingers
A grungy kitchen
Lewd pictures
Obscene telephone calls
Salacious limericks
A raunchy novel

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