salacious

Promoting sexual desire or lust.

Adjective

  1. Promoting sexual desire or lust.
    • utterly salacious
  2. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.
    • salacious gossip
    • salacious details
    • The newspaper published a salacious story about the scandal.

Origin

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

Forms

more salacious most salacious

Synonyms

ardent hot dirty lubricious

Related

salacity

Derived

salaciously salaciousness unsalacious