Usually means: Crude, coarse humor, somewhat indecent.
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  1. ribaldish: Wordnik
  2. ribaldish: Wiktionary
  3. Ribaldish: Dictionary.com
  4. Ribaldish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. ribaldish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Ribaldish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. ribaldish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. ribaldish: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Ribaldish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (archaic) Like a ribald; disposed to ribaldry.

Similar:
ribaldrous, ribaudrous, ribald, ridibund, ribby, enribbed, ruffianous, ragmatical, ribbony, riotous, more...

Opposite:
decorous, refined, genteel, tasteful

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Similar:
ribaldrous, ribaudrous, ribald, ridibund, ribby, enribbed, ruffianous, ragmatical, ribbony, riotous, more...

Opposite:
decorous, refined, genteel, tasteful



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