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Definition of salacious in English: salaciousadjective səˈleɪʃəssəˈleɪʃəs Having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters. Example sentencesExamples - If tabloids want to divulge salacious and prurient accounts of intimate sexual behaviour in future, against the wishes of one of the participants, they may find European Union law barring their path with a sword of flame.
- The fact that minors crave risqué films or salacious rap lyrics does not suggest a conspiracy by the entertainment industry to corrupt the youth of the nation.
- Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
- Domestic violence attracts a certain salacious interest - and let's face it, it's easy telly.
- In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
- Particularity objectionable to Judge Hand was the fact that the ‘details of the sex relations are set forth to attract readers to the story because of their salacious character’.
- Jackson's lawyers and prosecutors endorsed Melville's secrecy rulings, using their few public filings to lambast the media as purveyors of salacious stories aimed at a voyeuristic audience.
- America's Underage Drinking Epidemic promised a salacious exposé of youth gone very, very bad.
- Despite the predictable salacious stories of Hollywood, the most explosive and emotionally affecting part of this book involves Eszterhas' father.
- As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
- Of course, on the downside, his trial will be a media circus and the seriousness of the allegations will undoubtedly take second billing to salacious celebrity gossip.
- Defending their intrusion into private life, they argued that their literature was neither salacious nor exploitive.
- There is nothing like salacious gossip to keep the conversation going is there?
- Kerekes defended himself against accusations that he was representing violent, sexual murder in a salacious, titillating and insensitive manner.
- The American people were inundated on a daily basis with new and ever more salacious bits of gossip about the occupant of the Oval Office.
- She desperately wanted to rest, avoid the salacious Tinseltown gossip, and take control of her life.
- During his first season with the Cowboys, Curry cooperated with reporters seeking to tell his salacious story and didn't hide from scrutiny.
- Despite the publicity gained by the more salacious tribunal cases, Lea believes that sexual misconduct at work is actually decreasing.
- True, tabloid journalism is something invariably dirty and salacious that refuses to ever consider whether what it is doing is right.
- The gossip is usually more salacious, the stories downright dirtier and they tend to spend more money on wine.
Synonyms pornographic, obscene, indecent, improper, indelicate, crude, lewd, erotic, titillating, arousing, suggestive, sexy, risqué, coarse, vulgar, gross, dirty, ribald, smutty, filthy, bawdy, earthy corrupting, exploitative, prurient, immoral off colour, nasty, adult, X-rated, low, hard-core, soft-core informal porn, porno, blue, skin rare rank
Derivatives adverbsəˈleɪʃəslisəˈleɪʃəsli He does not treat the matter salaciously: how Kennedy dealt with his poor health becomes evidence of his ‘strength of character’ - though even more striking is the deception practised by him and his entourage. Example sentencesExamples - When the villainous Dr. Brinkman first encounters Ronica in her silver catsuit with cleavage on loan from Elvira, he comments salaciously, ‘No place to hide a gun in there.’
- Al Green has taken what has become an all too familiar story of growing up dirt poor, without any financial or emotional support, and going on to become a superstar and made it salaciously entertaining.
- Boyle is a superb writer, but what really makes this wise and smartly researched novel so entertaining is the salaciously wacky subject matter.
- Each revolution makes the generic urban monuments look like they're licking their lips, perhaps hungrily or salaciously or threateningly, at you, the viewer.
nounsəˈleɪʃəsnəssəˈleɪʃəsnəs Oddly enough, although there's no nudity, the scenes between Magimel and Doutey are some of the most erotic and highly charged in recent memory - apparently a little salaciousness goes a long way. Example sentencesExamples - The light romantic chemistry between the two is on-target: playful without a hint of salaciousness.
- The catalogue entry notes that the painting manages to avoid ‘indulging in the facile salaciousness of a Gerome.’
- The salaciousness of a rumor often helps it survive.
- Who can resist a peek at the salaciousness seething behind the sober suits and marble halls of American government?
noun səˈlasɪtisəˈlæsədi mass noundated The expression of undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters; salaciousness. you have to learn to tame your salacity Example sentencesExamples - The peacocks symbolized vanity, ibises - the past joy, different animals in the cavalcade are the symbols of salacity and other carnal sins.
- My Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft and Demonology supplies vast detail of Satanic rites, with illustrations of lipsmacking salacity; sex and Satan clearly go together.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin salax, salac- (from salire 'to leap') + -ious. salient from mid 16th century: This was first used as a heraldic term meaning ‘leaping’. It comes from Latin salire ‘to leap’. The sense ‘outstanding, significant’ as in salient point is found from the mid 19th century. Salire is behind many other English words including assail and assault (Middle English) ‘jumping on’ people; exult (late 16th century) ‘jump up’; insult; and result (Late Middle English) originally meaning ‘to jump back’. Salacious (mid 17th century) ‘undue interest in sexual matters’ is based on Latin salax, from salire. Its basic sense is ‘fond of leaping’, but as the word was used of stud animals it came to mean ‘lustful’. From the French form of salire come to sally out (mid 16th century) and sauté (early 19th century).
Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of salacious in US English: salaciousadjectivesəˈlāSHəssəˈleɪʃəs Having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters. Example sentencesExamples - In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
- Despite the predictable salacious stories of Hollywood, the most explosive and emotionally affecting part of this book involves Eszterhas' father.
- True, tabloid journalism is something invariably dirty and salacious that refuses to ever consider whether what it is doing is right.
- During his first season with the Cowboys, Curry cooperated with reporters seeking to tell his salacious story and didn't hide from scrutiny.
- Of course, on the downside, his trial will be a media circus and the seriousness of the allegations will undoubtedly take second billing to salacious celebrity gossip.
- As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
- The American people were inundated on a daily basis with new and ever more salacious bits of gossip about the occupant of the Oval Office.
- Despite the publicity gained by the more salacious tribunal cases, Lea believes that sexual misconduct at work is actually decreasing.
- Jackson's lawyers and prosecutors endorsed Melville's secrecy rulings, using their few public filings to lambast the media as purveyors of salacious stories aimed at a voyeuristic audience.
- Kerekes defended himself against accusations that he was representing violent, sexual murder in a salacious, titillating and insensitive manner.
- Defending their intrusion into private life, they argued that their literature was neither salacious nor exploitive.
- The gossip is usually more salacious, the stories downright dirtier and they tend to spend more money on wine.
- Particularity objectionable to Judge Hand was the fact that the ‘details of the sex relations are set forth to attract readers to the story because of their salacious character’.
- If tabloids want to divulge salacious and prurient accounts of intimate sexual behaviour in future, against the wishes of one of the participants, they may find European Union law barring their path with a sword of flame.
- The fact that minors crave risqué films or salacious rap lyrics does not suggest a conspiracy by the entertainment industry to corrupt the youth of the nation.
- There is nothing like salacious gossip to keep the conversation going is there?
- America's Underage Drinking Epidemic promised a salacious exposé of youth gone very, very bad.
- She desperately wanted to rest, avoid the salacious Tinseltown gossip, and take control of her life.
- Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
- Domestic violence attracts a certain salacious interest - and let's face it, it's easy telly.
Synonyms pornographic, obscene, indecent, improper, indelicate, crude, lewd, erotic, titillating, arousing, suggestive, sexy, risqué, coarse, vulgar, gross, dirty, ribald, smutty, filthy, bawdy, earthy
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin salax, salac- (from salire ‘to leap’) + -ious. |