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"ribald", "salacious", "smutty", "unprintable", "vulgar", "wanton", "immodest", "kinky", "prurient", "earthy", "racy", "salty", "indecorous", "unbecoming", "debasing", "perverted", "profane", "naughty", "wicked" ], "near antonyms":[ "priggish", "prim", "prudish", "puritanical", "straitlaced", "straightlaced", "Victorian", "correct", "decent", "decorous", "genteel", "polite", "proper", "seemly" ], "antonyms":[ "clean", "G-rated" ] }, "depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society":{ "examples":[ "the store kept all of its pornographic DVDs locked up, thus ensuring that they would be accessible only to adults" ], "synonyms":[ "bawdy", "blue", "coarse", "crude", "dirty", "filthy", "foul", "gross", "gutter", "impure", "indecent", "lascivious", "lewd", "locker-room", "nasty", "obscene", "porny", "profane", "raunchy", "ribald", "smutty", "stag", "trashy", "unprintable", "vulgar", "wanton", "X-rated" ], "near synonyms":[ "broad", "coarse-grained", "gamy", "gamey", "off", "off-color", "off-colored", "racy", "risqu\u00e9", "salacious", "salty", "suggestive", "barnyard", "earthy", "scatological", "immodest", "indecorous", "indelicate", "low", "unbecoming", "depraved", "kinky", "louche", "naughty", "perverse", "perverted", "wicked", "exceptionable", "objectionable", "unacceptable", "undesirable", "unwanted", "unwelcome", "abhorrent", "debasing", "disgusting", "loathsome", "offensive", "repellent", "repellant", "repugnant", "repulsive", "revolting", "distasteful", "obnoxious", "unpleasant", "blamable", "blameworthy", "censurable", "reprehensible", "atrocious", "infamous", "abusive", "scurrilous", "hard-core", "soft", "soft-core" ], "near antonyms":[ "priggish", "prim", "prudish", "puritanical", "staid", "straitlaced", "straightlaced", "Victorian", "correct", "decorous", "genteel", "nice", "polite", "proper", "respectable", "seemly", "innocuous", "inoffensive", "acceptable", "agreeable", "desirable", "pleasant", "pleasing", "welcome", 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"topper", "toque", "tricorne", "tricorn", "turban", "zucchetto", "cap", "chapeau", "hat", "headdress", "headgear", "headpiece", "lid", "warbonnet" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "poring (over)":{ "to give serious and careful thought to":{ "examples":[ "the committee will probably pore over the results of the study for a long time before making their decision" ], "synonyms":[ "chewing over", "cogitating", "considering", "contemplating", "debating", "deliberating", "entertaining", "eyeing", "eying", "kicking around", "meditating", "mulling (over)", "perpending", "pondering", "questioning", "revolving", "ruminating", "studying", "thinking (about or over)", "turning", "weighing", "wrestling (with)" ], "near synonyms":[ "musing (upon)", "reflecting (on or upon)", "reminiscing", "analyzing", "exploring", "reviewing", "concluding", "reasoning", "second-guessing", "speculating (about)", "brooding (about or over)", "dwelling (on or upon)", "fixating (on or upon)", 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