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salacious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective salacious has 2 senses
- salacious(s = adj.all) lubricious, lustful, prurient - 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" Derived forms noun salaciousness1, noun salacity1
- salacious(s = adj.all) lewd, obscene, raunchy - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" Derived forms noun salaciousness1, noun salacity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
salacious, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.].
Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
salacious, adj.
1 lustful; lecherous.
2 (of writings, pictures, talk, etc.) tending to cause sexual desire.
1 lustful; lecherous.
2 (of writings, pictures, talk, etc.) tending to cause sexual desire.
Derivative
salaciously adv. salaciousness n. salacity n.
Etymology
L salax salacis f. salire leap
THESAURUS
salacious
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, impure, incontinent, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lurid, lustful, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, ribald, satyric, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, steamy, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unsatisfied, vileROGET THESAURUS
salacious
Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
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