dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/rau_MW.json

{
  "raucous":{
    "antonyms":[
      "orderly"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": boisterously disorderly":[
        "a \u2026 raucous frontier town",
        "\u2014 Truman Capote"
      ],
      ": disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse":[
        "raucous voices"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He stepped over one man, avoided a raucous group of inebriated merchant seamen staggering for their boats, ran up his steps into the large foyer \u2026 \u2014 James Clavell , Gai-Jin , 1994",
      "The scene was reminiscent of a college fraternity reunion, with plenty of backslapping, joking, hugging and raucous laughter. \u2014 Lewis Beale , Chicago Tribune , 15 Feb. 1987",
      "On the ledge of rock above this strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at the sight of the new comers uttered raucous screams of disappointment and flapped sullenly away. \u2014 Arthur Conan Doyle , A Study in Scarlet , 1887",
      "the partying neighbors kept up their raucous laughter half the night",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The school would not hire openly gay faculty, but, by chance, Lee\u2019s office was in a hallway with theatre and dance and English professors\u2014a raucous , artsy crew that was very supportive of gay rights. \u2014 Emma Green, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
      "Complaints about raucous partying at houses booked through the service have built up over the years, culminating in the temporary ban that the company applied in August 2020. \u2014 Johnny Diaz, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
      "Today, the biggest performers headline the raucous Miami festival, coming from all over the world, often driven solely by their love and trust of Zingler and Cherif. \u2014 Dave Brooks, Billboard , 28 June 2022",
      "Angered by the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of Roe v. Wade, people hit the streets again Saturday for more raucous mass protests against a ruling that almost immediately made access to abortions all but impossible in at least 18 states. \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
      "And the raucous finale re-created in musical form the day of a man from Riverside County who was on his first date with a San Diego girl in the audience on Wednesday night. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
      "The idea to form a band of female performers came to her after watching a raucous group of male carolers trigger roars of laughter with their kitsch attires and goofy gestures during a mountain town festival. \u2014 Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 Oct. 2021",
      "They were joined by a raucous group of supporters who jeered when legislators challenged their claims. \u2014 Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Sep. 2021",
      "An officer\u2019s body camera footage shows, at one particular section of the barricade, a raucous but mostly nonthreatening group of protesters. \u2014 Michael Wilson, New York Times , 27 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1769, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin raucus hoarse; akin to Latin ravis hoarseness":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8r\u022f-k\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for raucous loud , stentorian , earsplitting , raucous , strident mean marked by intensity or volume of sound. loud applies to any volume above normal and may suggest undue vehemence or obtrusiveness. loud shouts of protest stentorian implies great power and range. an actor with a stentorian voice earsplitting implies loudness that is physically discomforting. the earsplitting sound of a siren raucous implies a loud harsh grating tone, especially of voice, and may suggest rowdiness. the raucous shouts of drunken revelers strident implies a rasping discordant but insistent quality, especially of voice. the strident voices of hecklers",
    "synonyms":[
      "boisterous",
      "hell-raising",
      "knockabout",
      "rambunctious",
      "robustious",
      "roisterous",
      "rollicking",
      "rowdy",
      "rumbustious"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204723",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "raunch":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": vulgarity , lewdness":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a movie full of raunch",
      "the sheer raunch of the movie earned it a NC-17 rating",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "It\u2019s just one example of how Kaling uses storytelling devices like humor and raunch to make larger points about inclusivity and gender. \u2014 Sanya Mansoor, Time , 7 June 2022",
      "Neither the retro raunch that emits from Stephanie\u2019s mouth nor the satire of present-tense political correctitude is funnier than it is labored by any wide margin. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 13 May 2022",
      "Unlike Luke, Trick Daddy, or his mentor Trina, Rozay doesn\u2019t do unabashed raunch . \u2014 Will Dukes, Rolling Stone , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "But this was a nasty show, too, boldly evoking the raunch of American Pie-era youth. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Mikey is a vision of early-aughts raunch culture grown desperate in middle age, but his ugliness is always masked with a twinge of humor. \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "McCartney injected that elevated raunch into the French house that had been long known for flouncy romance and femininity. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 22 Aug. 2021",
      "For all its raunch , the book is very much a study of trust. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 23 Jan. 2021",
      "Megan and Cardi simply update ancient dirty-blues vulgarity, now common lingo for generations brought up on Internet raunch . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 14 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from raunchy":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8r\u00e4nch",
      "\u02c8r\u022fnch"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bawdiness",
      "blueness",
      "coarseness",
      "crudeness",
      "crudity",
      "dirt",
      "dirtiness",
      "filth",
      "filthiness",
      "foulness",
      "grossness",
      "impureness",
      "impurity",
      "indecency",
      "lasciviousness",
      "lewdness",
      "nastiness",
      "obscenity",
      "profanity",
      "raunchiness",
      "ribaldry",
      "smut",
      "smuttiness",
      "vulgarity",
      "wantonness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180228",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "raunchiness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "decent",
      "G-rated",
      "nonobscene",
      "wholesome"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": obscene , smutty":[
        "raunchy jokes"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "inappropriately used office e-mail for an exchange of raunchy jokes",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Yet what made the show memorable was a raunchy detour into Tom of Finland territory. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
      "Hardy plays a version of herself: an independent artist named Annie who has spent the COVID-19 pandemic posting videos from her car of raunchy freestyle pop songs and rants about government overreach. \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s also raunchy , disgusting and full of deliberate chicanery. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 9 June 2022",
      "But their mutual attraction is undeniable, especially given the setting, in this raunchy comedy. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
      "Jagger has explained that the vagueness of the raunchy subject matter made for a hodgepodge of inappropriate material that was conducive to a great rock & roll song. \u2014 Derek Scancarelli, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Bad Bunny infuses it with electrifying beat switches, raunchy raps and astral synths. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
      "The studios were focused on young audiences who filled the multiplexes every weekend for raunchy comedies, many of them bad and a few terrific, and for ever-more-extravagant action adventures with digital beetles clattering through dank tombs. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Despite its staying power and influence, Bounce music and the dancing that goes along with it has a tendency to get a bad rap from some who see the genre as a raunchy expression, rather than a deeply cultural one. \u2014 Essence , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8r\u00e4n-",
      "\u02c8r\u022fn-ch\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bawdy",
      "blue",
      "coarse",
      "crude",
      "dirty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "gross",
      "gutter",
      "impure",
      "indecent",
      "lascivious",
      "lewd",
      "locker-room",
      "nasty",
      "obscene",
      "pornographic",
      "porny",
      "profane",
      "ribald",
      "smutty",
      "stag",
      "trashy",
      "unprintable",
      "vulgar",
      "wanton",
      "X-rated"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094039",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "raunchy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "decent",
      "G-rated",
      "nonobscene",
      "wholesome"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": obscene , smutty":[
        "raunchy jokes"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "inappropriately used office e-mail for an exchange of raunchy jokes",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Yet what made the show memorable was a raunchy detour into Tom of Finland territory. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
      "Hardy plays a version of herself: an independent artist named Annie who has spent the COVID-19 pandemic posting videos from her car of raunchy freestyle pop songs and rants about government overreach. \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s also raunchy , disgusting and full of deliberate chicanery. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 9 June 2022",
      "But their mutual attraction is undeniable, especially given the setting, in this raunchy comedy. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
      "Jagger has explained that the vagueness of the raunchy subject matter made for a hodgepodge of inappropriate material that was conducive to a great rock & roll song. \u2014 Derek Scancarelli, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Bad Bunny infuses it with electrifying beat switches, raunchy raps and astral synths. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
      "The studios were focused on young audiences who filled the multiplexes every weekend for raunchy comedies, many of them bad and a few terrific, and for ever-more-extravagant action adventures with digital beetles clattering through dank tombs. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Despite its staying power and influence, Bounce music and the dancing that goes along with it has a tendency to get a bad rap from some who see the genre as a raunchy expression, rather than a deeply cultural one. \u2014 Essence , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8r\u022fn-ch\u0113",
      "\u02c8r\u00e4n-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bawdy",
      "blue",
      "coarse",
      "crude",
      "dirty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "gross",
      "gutter",
      "impure",
      "indecent",
      "lascivious",
      "lewd",
      "locker-room",
      "nasty",
      "obscene",
      "pornographic",
      "porny",
      "profane",
      "ribald",
      "smutty",
      "stag",
      "trashy",
      "unprintable",
      "vulgar",
      "wanton",
      "X-rated"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192355",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}