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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Risqu'e Ris`qu['e]", a. masc., Risqu'ee Ris`qu['e]e", a. fem., . [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.

Moby Thesaurus

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