Definition of salacious Salacious

/sʌlejˈʃʌs/ - [suleyshus] - sa•la•cious

We found 7 definitions of salacious from 5 different sources.

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What does salacious mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

salacious - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
  lewd, obscene, raunchy
  dirty unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
salacious - characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
  lubricious, lustful, prurient
  sexy marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • salacious (n.)
    Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • salacious
    Having sexual lust.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • salacious
    sal-ā′shi-us, adj. lustful: lecherous.—adv. Salā′ciously, lustfully: lecherously.—ns. Salā′ciousness, Salac′ity, lust, lecherousness. [L. salaxsalīre, to leap.]

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