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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salacious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The tabloid newspapers love salacious gossip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Around the bar, the sweating, red and white faces of the male tourists turn upwards in salacious worship.
▪ His salacious grin faltered then disappeared and he glared at her, furious with himself for being tricked so easily.
▪ Once more, she tries to lull herself into dreamland via a salacious scenario starring herself and Riva.
▪ Some papers seek out extra salacious background.
▪ We agreed to these conditions, and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salacious

Salacious \Sa*la"cious\, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.] Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Sa*la"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salacious

1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c.1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.

Wiktionary
salacious

a. 1 promote sexual desire or lust. 2 lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

WordNet
salacious
  1. adj. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient]

  2. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy]

Wikipedia
Salacious

Salacious can refer to:

  • Having lust
  • Salacious B. Crumb, a minor character from Star Wars

Usage examples of "salacious".

All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.

All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.

Julia was in the triclinium with Primus, reclining comfortably on one of the couches and laughing at one of his salacious jokes.

I stood behind Molly Bashe and smacked her with the flat of my hand until she was squealing and begging for mercy and executing the most salacious gyrations imaginable.

I tried to work up a salacious interest, I schemed at it in fact, but she was artless, open and bland, so detached from the murmurous subcurrents, the system of images, that I gave it up.

Her spirit and intelligence, her interest in their lives, her fund of opinions, seemed to elicit confidences such as they shared with few others, though none in the salacious manner of Lovell.

One of the younger, more beautiful prostitutes winked openly at Ruth, who felt strangely exhilarated by such a mockingly salacious proposition.

The cavernous mouth collapsed and recollapsed in her version of a salacious sort of smile.

The thing that first made itself known as a little tale, usually salacious, dealing with conventionalized types and conventionalized incidents, has proved itself possibly the most flexible of all the literary forms in its adaptation to the needs of the mind that wishes to utter itself, inventively or constructively, upon some fresh occasion, or wishes briefly to criticise or represent some phase or fact of life.

But no salacious talk was to be found there, and he went instead to another local chat site.

When she rose off me, the sperm dropped from her salacious slit in large gouts upon me, attesting the bountiful measure with which nature had endowed both of us with the elixir of life.

It was exactly such laughter as he had heard bubble obscenely from the fat lips of the salacious women of Shadizar, City of Wickedness, when captive girls were stripped naked on the public auction block.

Shakti demanded, shattering his pleasantly salacious musings and returning him to the task at hand.

Also, we cannot believe that our Sanctified Emperor Don Carlos can be other than scandalized by the iniquitous, salacious, and impious prattlings of this overweening specimen of a dunghill race.

Powell was not a happy man when he arrived at headquarters, and Wynken, Blynken, and Nod did some salacious wynking, blynking and nodding.