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gamy

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variants: or gamey

Synonyms & Antonyms of gamy

hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent

a singles bar where the conversations and come-on lines tend to be gamy

Synonyms for gamy

bawdy,
blue,
lewd,
off,
off-color
(or off-colored),
racy,
ribald,
risqué,
salty,
spicy,
suggestive

Words Related to gamy

leering

barnyard,
coarse,
coarse-grained,
crude,
earthy,
foul,
gross,
vulgar

dirty,
filthy,
gutter,
indecent,
lascivious,
locker-room,
nasty,
obscene,
pornographic,
porny,
prurient,
raunchy,
smutty,
stag,
unprintable,
unpublishable,
warm,
X-rated

immodest,
indecorous,
indelicate,
naughty

Near Antonyms for gamy

clean,
decent,
G-rated,
nonobscene

innocuous,
inoffensive

priggish,
prim,
prudish,
puritanical,
staid,
straitlaced
(or straightlaced),
Victorian

correct,
decorous,
genteel,
nice,
polite,
proper,
respectable,
seemly

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