as in passionate
having a strong sexual desire
the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat
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Recent Examples of salacious
Further, his salacious moral failures make his leadership credentials questionable.
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Ryan Silverstein, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
Still, readers expecting a salacious tell-all about commune living should likely look elsewhere.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
Recent claims, in the conservative press, of a twelve-person orgy among officials at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, offer salacious elaboration on this theme of erotic pathology, casting the bureaucrat in the bedroom as at once perverse and virtuosic.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
The salacious cooking videos and their millions of fans are in conversation with this larger cultural moment, Reynolds said.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 9 Mar. 2025
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Sanchez, who described herself as a passionate volleyball player in her youth, talked of girls’ losing coveted spots on teams, and in some cases suffering injuries during games because of trans athletes unfairly competing against them.—
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The couple alternates between passionate embraces and domestic tension (an ambulance shows up in their driveway, at one point, its whirring red and blue light hinting something sinister has just taken place).—
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Some bees can remember experiencing high heat and weigh this against the reward of sugar when it’s offered in hot containers.—
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The script, from first-time feature writer Nora Garrett, was a hot property among readers in recent years.—
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The two men, both Mexican nationals, are now accused of lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor and molesting a minor in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred on March 20 in the cruise ship's sauna.—
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William Francis Chatel was arrested Tuesday, March 11, and charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 years of age, according to online court records.—
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“Salacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salacious. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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