| O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines. |
| In ancient Greece, the singing of such songs was a traditional way of invoking good fortune on the marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry. |
| He is between Mirbeau's polemical violence, the ribaldry of the Italian comedy and Elizabethan laughter. |
| Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. |
| There were other, less exalted grades, with less exalted duties and the license probably to engage in satire and ribaldry. |
| It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre. |
