Ribald vs Adulation - What's the difference?
ribald | adulation |
Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
* 1693 , :
* 1875 , May 15, Anonymous, " :
* 1888 , ", Can Such Things Be?'' (Pub. 1893):Originally published in the ''San Francisco Examiner'' on June 24, 1888, and later included in ''Can Such Things Be?'' and ''Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories .
An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature.
* 1483 [1900 edition], :
Flattery; fulsome praise.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
* 1919 , ,
As nouns the difference between ribald and adulation
is that ribald is an individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature while adulation is flattery; fulsome praise.As an adjective ribald
is coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.ribald
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* ribauld (rare)Adjective
(en adjective)- [L]et no zealous Christian trust the rogue,—the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.
- But when he died the "Reform Democracy" instinctively returned to its vomit of ribald insult.
- [T]he curious crowd had collected in the street , with here and there a scoffer uttering his incredulity and courage with scornful remarks or ribald cries.
Noun
(en noun)- After, he made an harlot, a ribald , come to him alone for to touch his members and his body, to move to lechery.
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Noun
(en noun)- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]
