salacious
Promoting sexual desire or lust.
Adjective
- Promoting sexual desire or lust.
- utterly salacious
- 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.