Examples of salacious in a Sentence

Lady Worsley's Whim, the story of Lady Worsley and her husband Sir Richard Worsley, is also reconstructed from some well-thumbed texts, in this case trial transcripts and newspaper reports of cases of "Criminal Conversation" which became popular eighteenth-century erotica. Charges … were brought by husbands seeking damages from the purported lovers of their supposedly adulterous wives, and the detail, which needed to be explicit, was frequently salacious. — Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement, 21 Nov. 2008 From snarky political commentary to salacious "memoirs" that flirt with both fact and fiction, scores of bloggers have gotten the book deal boon—with mixed results at the register. — Eunice Lee et al., Hyphen, Winter 2007 There's little difference between the junk mail in your mailbox and the junk e-mail that appears on your monitor, except that the e-mail is often of a salacious nature, e.g., the "hot, live XXX action" available at various dark alleyways on the web. — Michael Saunders, Boston Globe, 6 Oct.1997 a song with salacious lyrics the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat

Recent Examples on the Web After graduating from Harvard, Simon Putnam, the narrator of this novel, set in the McCarthy era, stumbles into a position at a prestigious publishing firm, where he is soon tasked with revising a salacious potboiler of mysterious authorship. — The New Yorker, 5 July 2021 Seitz also said that one salacious accusation in the FBI indictment may not be a crime. — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 3 July 2021 Media have often been slow to recognize that part of the story, when the more-salacious options sell more. — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2021 Beyond that, Evangeline’s potentially salacious diary is missing. — Emma Rubin, Vulture, 21 June 2021 In this case, despite the salacious and frankly racist attempts to paint Ms. Jones as undeserving and at fault for the death of her unborn child, Washington used discretion to make a call that was about preserving humanity in a moment of tragedy. — Jason Williams, Time, 21 May 2021 Grimes' character -- who is decked out in a pink dress, long white gloves and a gold crown -- denies the salacious claim in a Mario-like accent. — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 May 2021 Freddy Otash, the protagonist of this elaborate thriller, is a dirty cop turned private investigator enlisted by Confidential, a gossip rag, to investigate, and if necessary manufacture, salacious stories for its pages. — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 The philanthropic nature of their relationship was invoked to deflect from other more salacious concerns. — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 May 2021

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