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单词 racy
释义
racyrac‧y /ˈreɪsi/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINracy
Origin:
1600-1700 race ‘particular taste’ (16-19 centuries)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a racy underwear ad
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A rather racy novel, if the cover was anything to go by.
  • Give the media and the public something racy and mysterious and it will sell.
  • It's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy.
  • Pretty racy stuff for the era.
  • Something racy is just around the corner.
  • The film is about only a very brief sojourn in Gauguin's otherwise racy biography.
  • The restraint of her expression belies the worldly rush of her life in New York and her racy reputation.
racy writing is exciting and entertaining and often about sex:  a racy novel
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