Read full poem →“There was the soul of Cratinus—passable: Aristophanes—racy:
Plato—exquisite—not _your_ Plato, but Plato the comic poet; your
Dictionary Entry
Mildly risqué.
In a Sentence
“She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. racystyle racyhumour racystories racyanecdotes racyaccount racy
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “racy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →with considerable success the problem of patterning
racy and realistic speech with just sufficient form to
make non-prose effects possible when the playwright
Read full poem →bred sporting Englishman as well as a deep scholarly philosopher. As
a fine example of racy pre-Shakespearian English, it is delightful
reading, full of pleasant surprises in its queerly spelt words, which