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In some senses, racy is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
racy
/ˈɹeɪsi/
adj 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
little
VERB + RACY
makes, show, wore
RACY + NOUN
story, teenagers
ADV.
often
Definitions
adj
1
Mildly risqué.
She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
a racy story
2
Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
a racy wine
3
Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
4
Involving a data race or a race condition.
These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)
We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.
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She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
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a racy story
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“Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.
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This show is too racy for teenagers.
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Don't you think that dress is a little racy?
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He often makes racy remarks just for attention.
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