racy

Modifies a noun

• acidity: Its richness of texture balances perfectly its racy acidity.
• style: It has been argued that the newspaper pioneered popular journalism with its racy style aimed at an literate working-class.
• look: Sinclair QL in Business is a racy, irreverent look at the possibilities of the machine.
• novel: Nicholai Hel is undoubtedly the hero of this racy novel.
• wine: Bright crimson â not one of the deepest colors â and wonderfully fresh, lively, racy wine that is beautifully balanced.
• read: But such revelations make the biography a racy read, but also create an underlying problem.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The next speaker, Rev Giles Galley -a ringer with a rather racy reputation as a raconteur -did not let us down.
• too: Insurance isn't too racy either, probably due to the Diesel engine.
• slightly: His ideas was to have a slightly racy version of the Last Supper hung over his dining room table.
• very: Full-bodied, with very, very racy tannins that develop wonderfully on the palate.
• pretty: I've heard modern Mills & Boon can be pretty racy but I couldn't say.
• so: No one will ever give us such papers again, so full, so accurate, so racy, and withal so genial.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Caught the back of the leading train and then Yelmer ( Buurman ) was looking quite racy.
• get: From the moment you get your Mini Racetrack, you'll be dying to spread out on the carpet and get racy.