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[ UK /sælˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /səˈɫeɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
    lewd pictures
    an indecent gesture
    an indecent gesture
    obscene telephone calls
    salacious limericks
  2. characterized by lust
    prurient literature
    eluding lubricious embraces
    prurient thoughts

How To Use salacious In A Sentence

  • Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
  • Human nature is greedy, devious and sleazy, and most salacious tabloid stories are merely reflecting that fact.
  • The award-winning British play promises a salacious good time with its decidedly postmodern take on gender and sexual power relationships in the middle ages.
  • The British media may be attacked for the weakness of its investigative reporting and the salaciousness and dodgy practices of the tabloids, but I would rather err on the side of a profession that is hard to control than one that is pliant. Privacy decisions can't just be left to judges and politicians
  • The gossip is usually more salacious, the stories downright dirtier and they tend to spend more money on wine.
  • As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
  • The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious.
  • The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family. Book review
  • Salacious in a grubby way; even in his peculations there was no magnificence.
  • Despite the publicity gained by the more salacious tribunal cases, Lea believes that sexual misconduct at work is actually decreasing.
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