salacious
adjective /səˈleɪʃəs/
/səˈleɪʃəs/
(formal)- (of stories, pictures, etc.) encouraging sexual desire or containing too much sexual detail
- The papers concentrated on the more salacious aspects of the case.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySalacious is used with these nouns:- detail
- gossip
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin salax, salac- (from salire ‘to leap’) + -ious.