Sample Sentences forsalacious (auto-selected)
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It seemed that the village—not Kya—awaited judgment, and few felt the salacious joy they had expected at this juncture. (source)salacious = improper
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He wiggled his eyebrows at me, his crooked grin clearly salacious.† (source)
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Jean Louise said, "It's just that I never knew you went in for salacious reading material, Aunty."† (source)
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It is Finnick's salacious and gory account of the Capitol that takes the day.† (source)
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The public will always prefer a salacious melodrama to a bald tale of mere thievery.† (source)
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She watched videos of roadside bombings of American forces in Iraq and surfed some of the more salacious Islamic Web sites, which her instructors referred to as jihadi porn.† (source)
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Naturally, I saw something so stewardesslike in her performance of these duties—as if she were dispatching with Owen in the manner that she might have changed a diaper; while at the same time there was something salacious in how close she put her face to his, as if she were intent on seducing him.† (source)
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Her permanent room was her only home, and this made for immediate communion with Florentino Ariza, who, she said, would become a wise man known throughout the world because he could enrich his soul with reading in a paradise of salaciousness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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MARTHA (Salaciously—to NICK) So everyone's going to look like you, eh?† (source)
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It needs to be said too what salacious nonsense it is to claim that Lord Darlington was anti-Semitic, or that he had close association with organizations like the British Union of Fascists.† (source)
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I giggle with the most revolting salaciousness over La Vie Parisienne, when I get hold of one in Chicago, yet I shouldn't even try to hold your hand.† (source)
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Two months after their weekend in Palm Springs, Marilyn Monroe stands before a dazzled crowd in New York's Madison Square Garden, singing the traditional birthday song in the most salacious manner possible.† (source)
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But even those wild memories of his mad youth left him unmoved, just as during his last debauch he had exhausted his quota of salaciousness and all he had left was the marvelous gift of being able to remember it without bitterness or repentance.† (source)
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No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend.† (source)
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Tell me—" Her whisper was tinged with salaciousness—"does oo feel the dear itsy one stirring, the pledge of love?† (source)
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He overrode my feelings and the conversation grew more salacious.† (source)
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