How to Use salacious in a Sentence

salacious

adjective

• The fact is, this photo is sweet, and not in the least bit salacious.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2019
• There's more to her than salacious details.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
• As salacious as this sounds, none of this has anything to do with booties or breasts.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 29 Oct. 2017
• People think that a strip club is going to be a place that is so salacious.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 7 June 2022
• Sounds a little salacious, yes?
  — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
• But in this case, their salacious reporting was all too true.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• The film doesn’t get into any of the more salacious rumors about the band.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2025
• It’s been covered as kind of a salacious tabloid story.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• Give the blue bloods a salacious dance before supper.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
• But there are some new, salacious-seeming details.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
• For many adolescent males like us back then, salacious content was the coin of the realm.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• A lot of true crime content is salacious and gory, full of reenactments and shock.
  — Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
• Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
• Since then, the details have become more salacious — and more troubling.
  — Rachel Wolfe, Vox, 25 Mar. 2018
• The salacious tabloid sell is that LaBeouf wrote this script about his life while in rehab.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
• My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2018
• And then this salacious story comes around where this actor wants to murder and eat people.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
• The school says the parents are trying to give a salacious bent to objects like a leather jacket.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
• Still, the real saga was salacious enough to capture a lot of attention.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Gore gave it a listen, but was quickly abhorred by the salacious content.
  — Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• The couple disposed of the salacious garb, but the cutouts remain in the basement.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 28 Aug. 2019
• Not that the storms led to some irredeemable gaffe or unveiled some salacious scandal.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
• Here are three stories about high-school and college reunions that are a lot more salacious than white wine and small talk.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 12 July 2018
• For others, the substance in question was not salacious and should not be kept sealed, the rulings said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• As for whether there were any stories too salacious to include in this short film, Gates remains coy.
  — Vogue, 5 Sep. 2017
• But its lasting impact didn't come from salacious detail about rowdy parties or tips on when to eat fish.
  — Brad Rickman, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 June 2018
• The simplest explanation is the salacious soap opera that plays out within the songs.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
• Back in ’79, when the show was first done, the reveal of the trans character was kind of a salacious thing.
  — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
• There has been a lot of sympathy for the sisters as Britons have watched each salacious detail emerge.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
• The antics of the gods on Mount Olympus would rival the plot of the most salacious soap opera.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021