salacious
adjective
lustful or lecherous.
salaciousness
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a word derived from
salacious.
Example Sentences
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The novel was originally published anonymously as a publicity tactic to underscore the salaciousness of its material, just before the 1929 stock market crash.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
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 series' creators stripped "Beartown" of the melodrama that's often inherent to stories centered on teenagers, and of the salaciousness that lesser series lean on when writing about sex crimes.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2021
Put more prosaically, “The Real Lolita”—which has won a flurry of advance praise—hopes to transcend its essential salaciousness and its warmed-over genre clichés by appealing to something resembling restorative justice.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
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 Montague Summers
