risqué
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adjective
daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; off-color: a risqué story.
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| —adj | |
| bordering on impropriety or indecency: a risqué joke | |
| [C19: from French risquer to hazard, | |
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Risqué
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Word Origin & History
risque
"tending toward impropriety," 1867, borrowed from Fr. risqué, pp. of risquer (see risk).
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Example sentences
Its risque elements are mild, including a shot of bare buttocks used to good comic effect.
Advocates of such laws want to keep the risque covers out of the view of minors.
We decided to cut the risque stuff out, and played our show.
It includes some off-color language and one mildly risque musical routine.
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