Salacious
/səˈleɪ.ʃəs/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Promoting sexual desire or lust.
"utterly salacious"
- 2 Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.
"salacious gossip"
Adjective
- 1 suggestive of or tending to moral looseness wordnet
- 2 characterized by lust wordnet
Example
More examples"He goaded him on to ever more salacious revelations."
Etymology
Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious.