salacious
pronunciation
How to pronounce salacious in British English:
UK [səˈleɪʃəs]
How to pronounce salacious in American English:
US [səˈleʃəs]
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- Adjective:
- characterized by lust
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Word Origin
- salacious
- salacious: see salient
- salacious (adj.)
- 1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c. 1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.
Example
- 1. Dealing with salacious or indecent material .
- 2. The resignation last month of mark foley , a republican congressman accused of sending salacious e-mails to young congressional pages , is merely the latest blow .
- 3. If you read judicial opinions in serious crime cases , which always seem to describe every gruesome and salacious detail , you will almost surely reach two conclusions .
- 4. Ms akers said the " vast majority " of the stories written from the information obtained by corrupt payments were " what I would describe as salacious gossip " , not articles written in the public interest .
- 5. In the new , mega-political internet sex scandal , the 46-year-old new yorker downplayed his phone sex and salacious sexting with female strangers as " you know , almost a frivolous exchange among friends . "