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intimacy, lovemaking, making love, coupling, Colloq making out,
going to bed, shacking up, Slang having it away, Taboo slang
screwing, shafting, shagging, fucking, Chiefly Brit bonking:
They feel that there is too much sex and violence on television
these days.
sexual adj. 1 sex, reproductive, genital, procreative or procreant,
sex, progenitive, propagative: Their current project is an
investigation of sexual behaviour in young adults. 2 sensual,
sensuous, erotic, carnal, fleshly, voluptuous, libidinous,
earthy, bodily, physical, lustful, animal, Colloq sexy: They
have a deep sexual attraction to one another.
sexy adj. 1 erotic, arousing, exciting, sensual, sensuous,
seductive, suggestive, provocative, inviting, alluring, bedroom,
flirtatious, appealing, fascinating, striking, tempting,
captivating, enchanting, stunning, Colloq come-hither: She
thought he had a sexy smile. 2 sex, dirty, pornographic,
obscene, filthy, smutty, lewd, foul, lascivious, indecent,
explicit, gross, X-rated, vulgar, rude, coarse, off colour,
risqu‚, titillating, bawdy, ribald, lusty, immodest, rough,
indelicate, suggestive, unseemly, improper, indecorous, naughty,
shameless, Slang raunchy: They sat there leering over a sexy
magazine.
19.4 shabby...
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shabby adj. 1 worn, dingy, faded, worn out, threadbare, tatty,
tattered, frayed, raggedy, ragged, scruffy, dilapidated, ratty,
dirty, bedraggled, mangy, run-down, seedy, (much) the worse for
wear, Brit down at heel, US down at the heel(s), Colloq grubby,
scrubby, gungy, tacky, US grungy: He was wearing a shabby suit
and down-at-heel shoes. 2 poor, peremptory, unpleasant, nasty,
disagreeable, mean, contemptuous, demeaning, grudging,
ungenerous, impolite, rude, unfriendly, unhelpful, shoddy,
ungentlemanly, unladylike, dishonourable, unworthy, scurvy,
Colloq rotten: We were subjected to very shabby treatment at
the office where we applied for work. 3 dilapidated, tumbledown,
broken-down, shattered, battered, run-down, ramshackle, seedy,
neglected, dirty, squalid, slum-like, slummy, Colloq beat-up,
crummy: Sam lives in a shabby little house near the canal. 4