From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Risqu'e \Ris'qu['e]"\, adjective masc., Risqu'ee \Ris'qu['e]e"\, adjective fem., (r[-e]s'k[asl]"). [F., p.p. of risquer to risk.] Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqu['e] story. --Henry Austin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: {blue}, {gamy}, {gamey}, {juicy}, {naughty}, {racy}, {spicy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "risque": Rabelaisian, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, broad, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, daring, denunciatory, dirty, dysphemistic, epithetic, erotic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, foul, fulminatory, gross, imprecatory, improper, indecent, indecorous, maledictory, obscene, off color, off-color, profane, purple, racy, raw, ribald, risky, salacious, salty, scabrous, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sexy, shady, spicy, suggestive, unrefined, vile, vituperative, wicked
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