Example Sentences

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Twenty five years later, I realized the truest role model of the series was there all along – hiding behind all the salaciousness.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2023

One thing Wenner didn’t like about Hagan’s book was the title, a homage to the Rolling Stones album, of course, but perhaps too redolent of thievery and salaciousness for his taste.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

Brennan: It’s so funny to me to hear this because as a craven newspaper editor, my instinct is that this controversy, this salaciousness, would be like drawing fireflies to a lamp.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2022

The Third Reich dampened salaciousness and frivolity, but schlager triumphantly returned after the second world war; its innate cheer also became a celebration of the German economic miracle.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2020

A clique were shocked at her; it was not her salaciousness they objected to but her success.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague