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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
risque
    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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]

Thesaurus Results for risque:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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