Communication

Synonyms for bawdy

The synonym for bawdy recorded in this bank is bawdry, in the sense "lewd or obscene talk or writing". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for bawdy

bawdrynoun, in the sense "lewd or obscene talk or writing"

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The sensenounTier 5, SummitCommunication

lewd or obscene talk or writing

They published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy.

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The true synonym

bawdry

Same sentence, swapped: They published a collection of Elizabethan bawdry.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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offensive
foul

Where bawdy turns up in the game

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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