full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style"
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racy
How to use racy in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for racy.
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Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question.
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Quick take
full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of racy gathered in one view.
marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"
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"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for racy.
adjective
full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style"
See also: lively
adjective
marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"
See also: full-bodied, rich, robust
adjective
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"
adjective
designed or suitable for competing in a race
Example sentences
Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question.
You can still send mutable state across channels, at which point it is shared and potentially racy.
This is racy and bad to do at WM startup time, and accounts for a few bugs/crashes in the WM or in gnome-terminal.
Awkward phrasing but get what I mean?However, at the same time, teens are more willing to send racy photos if sent over snapchat.
Let's say there's a 16-year old girl and a 17-year old boy who are in a consensual dating relationship and, you know, take some racy photos of one other.
That and the fact that the racy humor was more of a novelty in 1996, when most FPS were in the Doom sci-fi vein of 'stoic hero shoots his way through alien/monster/etc wasteland'.
My concern is that we've created a system where kids can't go out and get drunk, make racy comments about girls -- basically act like kids -- without the entire world coming down on their head.
People in my social graph who clearly wouldn't want others seeing activity about the racy videos they've clicked on are getting wall posts like "Grandpa just watched 'Tiniest bikini' on Socialcam".
It sucks to see my friends tricked into clicking on racy videos on FB and sharing them accidentally, a group of folks as awesome as the SocialCam team shouldn't have to resort to this type of trickery.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use racy in a sentence?
Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question.
What does racy mean?
full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style"
What part of speech is racy?
racy is commonly used as adjective.