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spicy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of spicy

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

a spicy suggestion that earned him a slap in the face

Synonyms of spicy

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

Words Related to spicy

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 of spicy

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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