[
UK
/sælˈeɪʃəs/
]
[ US /səˈɫeɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /səˈɫeɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
lewd pictures
an indecent gesture
an indecent gesture
obscene telephone calls
salacious limericks -
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.