bodice-ripping

bodice-ripping
ADJ: ADJ n (disapproval)
A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.

...a smoldering seductress in one of those bodice-ripping B-movies.


English dictionary. 2008.

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