What does salacious mean?

Definitions for salacious
səˈleɪ ʃəssala·cious

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lubricious, lustful, prurient, salaciousadjective

    characterized by lust

    "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"

  2. lewd, obscene, raunchy, salaciousadjective

    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

    "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

Wiktionary

  1. salaciousadjective

    Promoting sexual desire or lust.

  2. salaciousadjective

    Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

  3. Etymology: From salax, from salio.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SALACIOUSadjective

    Lustful; lecherous.

    Etymology: salacis, Lat. salace, Fr.

    One more salacious, rich, and old,
    Out-bids, and buys her. John Dryden, Juven. Sat.

    Feed him with herbs
    Of generous warmth, and of salacious kind. John Dryden, Virg.

    Animals spleened, grow extremely salacious. Arbuthnot.

ChatGPT

  1. salacious

    Salacious refers to something that has or conveys undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters. It is usually used to describe content that is sexually suggestive, obscene or lustful.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Salaciousnoun

    having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous

  2. Etymology: [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Salacious

    sal-ā′shi-us, adj. lustful: lecherous.—adv. Salā′ciously, lustfully: lecherously.—ns. Salā′ciousness, Salac′ity, lust, lecherousness. [L. salaxsalīre, to leap.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of salacious in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of salacious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of salacious in a Sentence

  1. Native American:

    Very smart, very gritty, and not salacious, think ‘Easy Rider,’ but with pissed-off women.

  2. Stephanie Grisham:

    Once again part of the liberal media, this time Vanity Fair, has written a story riddled with unnamed sources and false assertions, as a magazine tailored to women it is shameful that they continue to write salacious and false stories meant to demean Mrs. President Trump, rather than focus on President Trump positive work as First Lady and as a supportive wife and mother.

  3. Read MoreStone:

    To collude, I would have to have written him before. ... We would need a time machine to collude. i am anxious to rebut allegations that I had any improper or nefarious contact with any agent of the Russia state based on facts -- not misleading and salacious headlines.

  4. Donald Trump:

    It’s frankly outrageous and highly irresponsible for a left-wing blog … to drop highly salacious and flat-out false information on the Internet just days before he takes the oath of office, ... The fact that BuzzFeed and CNN made the decision to run with this unsubstantiated claim is a sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks.

  5. Todd Fisher:

    It became a bit of a salacious tale that certain people were offended by or did n’t approve of, it was funny, because Carrie, who’s sort of immune to some types of criticism, she went back to my mom and was like, ‘ Hey, maybe I should n’t have told that story. ’ My mom’s like, ‘ What can I say ? Mothers know a few things. ’.

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