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Recent Examples of suggestiveness
The other funnymen of the time—Milton Berle with his lewd suggestiveness, Jackie Gleason with his baleful roar—did the same shtick over and over.
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David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suggestiveness
Noun
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Nestled between the layers is a genuinely heartfelt story that blooms from beneath all the aesthetic and verbal vulgarity, thus making innate, and intuitive, his ongoing, ever-evolving manifesto on the state of things.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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In addition, prosecutors say swastikas, antisemitic slogans and vulgarity were spray-painted on pillars underneath M-53 and Canal, a brick wall near a business and an electrical box at a second business.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And thus the audience is stuck with this scenario, which complicates in intensity and with a linguistic relish that has its funny moments (for some, anyway), but also features a lot of crudity that really wrenches you away from the typical landscape of the classy, urban American farce.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Yet Burr never stoops to crudity.—
Bob Strauss,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026
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While the council remained inside to finish the meeting, including approving a local emergency declaration, police were outside where a small mob gathered, yelling obscenities at the officers.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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Across the state, officers directed obscenities, insults and threats at students just before or after using physical force, records and video footage show.—
Clare Amari,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The layer of comic broadness on top of the romance also seemed intended to compensate for the fact that the dating itself wasn’t particularly compelling.—
Anna Peele,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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Democrats expressed discomfort with the broadness of the list.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sugar is the traditional sweetener in lassi, but the maple syrup here adds a subtle earthiness and dissolves quickly while blending.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 May 2026
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The matcha flavor is sweet with just a subtle hint of matcha earthiness, rounded out with sprinkles and glaze on top.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Over-Nite Sensation is a triumph: a concentrated digest from perhaps the most popular stretch of his career, and a freeze-frame of his compositional flowering and ingenious lyrical ribaldry.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
The Atlantic,
27 Nov. 2023
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Finding liberty in punk artistry, Dury updated the tradition of British music-hall ribaldry and rude folk humor.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Aug. 2022
Noun
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Marie is disciplined and principled, while her rebellious daughter prides herself on breaking the rules and reveling in lasciviousness.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Suggestiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suggestiveness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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