| While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment. |
| But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy. |
| Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. |
| So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry. |
| 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. |
| O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines. |
