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But “She Said” isn’t retailing extra helpings of warmed-over salacity.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2019

She had had no experience with this class of individuals whatsoever, and did not know the salacity and humor of the theatrical tribe.

From Sister Carrie by Dreiser, Theodore

As a rule, the ideas of the folk who cherish a prejudice against dancing are crude rather than unclean—the outcome much more of ignorance than salacity.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose