Slightly improper

The answer

RACY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RACY answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RACY

Every other clue in this collection answered by RACY, most used first.

• Risqué - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
• Suggestive - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Off-color - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Piquant - used 20 times, most recently in 1997
• Somewhat improper - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Ribald - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• A bit blue - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Somewhat blue - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• A bit off-color - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Indelicate - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Provocative - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Pungent. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Somewhat indelicate - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Blue - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Rather suggestive - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Titillating - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Slightly open - AJAR, used 322 times
• Slightly - ATAD, used 300 times
• Slightly - ABIT, used 225 times
• Just slightly - ATAD, used 134 times
• Just slightly - ABIT, used 86 times
• Burn slightly - CHAR, used 85 times

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