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Salacious

//səˈleɪ.ʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Promoting sexual desire or lust.

    "utterly salacious"

  2. 2
    Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

    "salacious gossip"

Adjective
  1. 1
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness wordnet
  2. 2
    characterized by lust wordnet

Etymology

Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious.

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