salaciousness
- a word derived from salacious.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 Summers, Montague
