salacious

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While very salacious, these allegations are just that -- allegations. "

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

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  • If at this point the media got hold of anything salacious, they'd create a scandal that could taint everything the team had been working for. —  Laura's Baby
  • Wilson's death gives the senator a salacious, Eurocentric target, someone the president's endorsed successor can't hit. " —  Call to Treason
  • While very salacious, these allegations are just that -- allegations. " —  CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009
  • His grin was salacious, daring. —  Heaven's Price
  • It was mildly salacious, nothing more. —  Hide And Seek
 

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lecherous ·  lascivious ·  libidinous ·  unchaste ·  lustful ·  prurient ·  bawdy ·  impish ·  ruttish ·  conspiratorial ·  rakish ·  nonwhite
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin salax(-ac-), disposed to leap, lustful, from salire, leap: see sail, salient.
 

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/səˈleɪʃəs/
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