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Ribald vs Outrageous - What's the difference?

ribald | outrageous |

As adjectives the difference between ribald and outrageous

is that ribald is coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way while outrageous is cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

As a noun ribald

is an individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature.

ribald

English

Alternative forms

* ribauld (rare)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
  • * 1693 , :
  • [L]et no zealous Christian trust the rogue,—the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.
  • * 1875 , May 15, Anonymous, " :
  • But when he died the "Reform Democracy" instinctively returned to its vomit of ribald insult.
  • * 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 .
  • [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)
  • An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature.
  • * 1483 [1900 edition], :
  • 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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    outrageous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
  • * c. 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , First Folio 1623:
  • To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
  • * 2011 , Paul Wilson, (The Guardian) , 19 Oct 2011:
  • The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:
  • For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
  • Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
  • * 2004 , David Smith, , 19 Dec 2004:
  • Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
  • Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • * 2001 , Imogen Tilden, (The Guardian) , 8 Dec 2001:
  • *:"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."