as in passionate
having a strong sexual desire
a booze-fueled off-campus party that was rife with randy frat boys hoping to score
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Recent Examples of randy
McNamara’s screenplays are equally strange and enchanting, but also florid, absurd and randy.
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Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
24 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Bull winds up in an unintended liaison with the randy Molasses (Michelle Buteau), which proves unfortunate when Honey unexpectedly bursts in on them.
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Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
Another member of the household who just happens to be passing by in one of the residence’s many hallways is Nadja, whose attraction to randy Englishmen seems to cross generational boundaries as well.
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Katie Rife,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2024
Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.
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Lisa Kennedy,
The Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2024
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Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
24 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Bull winds up in an unintended liaison with the randy Molasses (Michelle Buteau), which proves unfortunate when Honey unexpectedly bursts in on them.
—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
Another member of the household who just happens to be passing by in one of the residence’s many hallways is Nadja, whose attraction to randy Englishmen seems to cross generational boundaries as well.
—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2024
Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.
—
Lisa Kennedy,
The Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for randy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for randy
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It was captured as monarch and his eldest son visited the Natural History Museum in London to kick off the countdown to COP30, the annual United Nations climate change summit to be held the following month in Brazil, as both are passionate advocates for the environment.
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Alejandra Gomez, the executive director of the non-profit LUCHA, says that the moratorium emerged from the passionate advocacy of many Arizonans—and in the face of fierce counter-lobbying from the data center industry led by former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
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That’s why everything looks different in a cold pool versus a hot shower.
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Either way, El Niño is likely to remain a hot topic throughout 2026.
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Her music owned up to being horny, garish, and superficial, but could scan as thin or cheap when held up to other kinds of ethical or political scrutiny.
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By its end, there is even less coherence between the characters and plotlines, diverging into a few pages from the perspective of a desperately horny lesbian crab.
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“Randy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randy. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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