salacious
adjective
lustful or lecherous.
salaciousness
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a word derived from
salacious.
Example Sentences
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He lamented “the salaciousness, the shame, the embarrassment, the clicks, the likes” that often come from sharing the photos online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
From there, it’s a grab bag of salaciousness and cliches amplified by bad writing and laughable performances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
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
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
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
