as in passionate
having a strong sexual desire
a booze-fueled off-campus party that was rife with randy frat boys hoping to score
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Recent Examples of randy
McNamara’s screenplays are equally strange and enchanting, but also florid, absurd and randy.
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Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Bull winds up in an unintended liaison with the randy Molasses (Michelle Buteau), which proves unfortunate when Honey unexpectedly bursts in on them.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Another member of the household who just happens to be passing by in one of the residence’s many hallways is Nadja, whose attraction to randy Englishmen seems to cross generational boundaries as well.
—Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
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Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Bull winds up in an unintended liaison with the randy Molasses (Michelle Buteau), which proves unfortunate when Honey unexpectedly bursts in on them.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Another member of the household who just happens to be passing by in one of the residence’s many hallways is Nadja, whose attraction to randy Englishmen seems to cross generational boundaries as well.
—Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for randy
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Malinin, at the post-skate press conference following his world title victory, made his thoughts known in a passionate plea to the ISU (International Skating Union).—
Tyler Erzberger,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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Fans are going to be passionate.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Rather than offering just the standard facials and massages (which are also on the menu), the spa has red and blue light therapy and a treatment where guests can alternate between a hot sauna and a cold plunge.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Apr. 2026
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Over beats as blunt, chromatic, and gleefully stupid as a Jeff Koons sculpture, the singer has vied to make hyperpop more garish and alarming by being hornier, messier, and more extreme than her peers.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
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After all, there’s no shortage of horny mid-life women on screen and in literature these days, from Nicole Kidman’s Romy in Babygirl to the narrator of Miranda July’s All Fours.—
Rebecca Cope,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Randy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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