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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. suggestive of sexual impropriety;
- Example: "a blue movie"
- Example: "blue jokes"
- Example: "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"
- Example: "a juicy scandal"
- Example: "a naughty wink"
- Example: "naughty words"
- Example: "racy anecdotes"
- Example: "a risque story"
- Example: "spicy gossip"
[syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Risqu'e \Ris`qu['e]"\, a. masc., Risqu'ee \Ris`qu['e]e"\, a.
   fem., (r[-e]s`k[asl]"). [F., p.p. of risquer to risk.]
   Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety;
   dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or
   of doubtful morality; as, a risqu['e] story. --Henry Austin.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

risque
    adj 1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
           jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy
           details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty
           words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy
           gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy,
           naughty, racy, risque, spicy]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "risque":
   Rabelaisian, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, broad,
   calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing,
   damnatory, daring, denunciatory, dirty, dysphemistic, epithetic,
   erotic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, foul,
   fulminatory, gross, imprecatory, improper, indecent, indecorous,
   maledictory, obscene, off color, off-color, profane, purple, racy,
   raw, ribald, risky, salacious, salty, scabrous, scatologic,
   scurrile, scurrilous, sexy, shady, spicy, suggestive, unrefined,
   vile, vituperative, wicked