salacious

(sə-lā'shəs)
adj.

1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
2. Lustful; bawdy.

[From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap.]

salaciously sa·la'cious·ly adv.
salaciousness sa·la'cious·ness or sa·lac'i·ty (sə-lăs'ĭ-tē) n.

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A new, harshly critical book about Hillary Clinton (The Truth About Hillary) is the subject of debate about if and how it will affect her chances in the 2008 US presidential election:

"...some political observers played down the impact, suggesting Mr. Klein merely dredged up past rumours about the former first lady and stitched them together into a salacious narrative."

Link: Book dishes dirt on Hillary Clinton

Posted June 23, 2005.

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adjective

Of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire: amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, erotic, lascivious, sexual, sexy. See sex/asexual.

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

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IN BRIEF: Lustful, appealing to ones desires.

The adult magazine was salacious.

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For a list of words related to salacious, see:

• Vulgar, Rude, Degenerate, or Wild
• Sexuality and Libido - salacious: (adj) lewd, lascivious

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - liderlig, lysten, slibrig

Nederlands (Dutch)
geil, obsceen, schunnig

Français (French)
adj. - salace

Deutsch (German)
adj. - aufreizend, lüstern

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ασελγής, λάγνος, άσεμνος, σκαμπρόζικος

Italiano (Italian)
salace

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - impuro, devasso

Русский (Russian)
непристойный, развратный, похотливый, сладострастный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - salaz

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - slipprig, obscen, liderlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
好色的, 黄色的, 猥亵的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 好色的, 黃色的, 猥褻的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 호색의, 외설스러운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 好色な, みだらな, わいせつな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مثير للشهوة, داعر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שטוף-זימה, תאוותני, גס, של ניבול-פה‬

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