salacious
adjective
sa·la·cious
sə-ˈlā-shəs 
1
: arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination
salacious headlines
salacious lyrics
salaciously
adverb
salaciousness
noun
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.
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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
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
Long before the Duttons hit the ranch, the wealthy Ewing family’s salacious drama was must-see TV.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 June 2026
Not analysis of the games, not human interest stories on the players, but salacious searches for the next star being failed by the mom-and-pop franchises that exist only to develop talent and feed it to the overlords in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Miami.
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Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
The Koenig trade was triggered by preposterously salacious events.
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Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
Unfortunately, in our legal system, anyone can file a lawsuit alleging anything, truthful or not, and then hide behind litigation privilege to justify the most salacious allegations, no matter how untrue and untested.
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Rachel Desantis,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 June 2026
Not analysis of the games, not human interest stories on the players, but salacious searches for the next star being failed by the mom-and-pop franchises that exist only to develop talent and feed it to the overlords in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Miami.
—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
The Koenig trade was triggered by preposterously salacious events.
—
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
Unfortunately, in our legal system, anyone can file a lawsuit alleging anything, truthful or not, and then hide behind litigation privilege to justify the most salacious allegations, no matter how untrue and untested.
—
Rachel Desantis,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for salacious
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“Salacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salacious. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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