a movie full of raunch
the sheer raunch of the movie earned it a NC-17 rating
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The episode also concludes the series itself, which routinely bounced between toe-curling raunch and a fierce sentimentality that sometimes clashed with its trademark cynicism.—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 May 2025 Jam-packed with his absurd self-aware humor, the finale deviates from the show’s usual slapstick raunch with a rare tender moment between Jesse and his equally crude siblings, Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam DeVine).—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 May 2025 Harley Quinn is raunch, sweetness, and violence all in one, partly thanks to its assured voice acting (Kaley Cuoco’s Harley is great, but Ron Funches’s King Shark is the heart of the series.)
24.—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024 In 2016, Ariel Levy hung out with Wong, risking her life in the passenger seat of the comedian’s RAV4 and learning about her particular brand of radical raunch.—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for raunch
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