Risque

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Risqu'e \Ris`qu['e]"\, a. masc., Risqu'ee \Ris`qu['e]e"\, a.
     fem., (r[-e]s`k[asl]"). [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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  risque
       adj : 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}, {spicy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "risque":
     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