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1. Earthy and sexually explicit
   "a raunchy novel"
    
2. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
   "raunchy whisperings of a dirty old man";
   - lewd, obscene, salacious
    
3. [US] Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
   "a miner's raunchy face";
   - begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy

Derived forms: raunchiest, raunchier

See also: dirty, sexy, soiled, unclean

Encyclopedia: Raunchy