How to Use salacious in a Sentence

salacious

adjective
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  • The fact is, this photo is sweet, and not in the least bit salacious.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2019
  • The antics of the gods on Mount Olympus would rival the plot of the most salacious soap opera.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The couple disposed of the salacious garb, but the cutouts remain in the basement.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 28 Aug. 2019
  • But her father skips over the salacious parts with her.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The salacious tabloid sell is that LaBeouf wrote this script about his life while in rehab.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The most salacious rumor to spring forth from the Pump Rules fandom should be one of the more easy to disprove.
    — Vulture, 6 June 2023
  • People think that a strip club is going to be a place that is so salacious.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 7 June 2022
  • For many adolescent males like us back then, salacious content was the coin of the realm.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Yet the media coverage in both the Biden and Pence cases for the first few days was salacious.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The blue dress was probably the No. 1 most salacious thing, but this would be a close second.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That would leave most for only the most salacious websites.
    — Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
  • Ahead of its release, Spare leaked, with some of the more salacious stories from the book hitting the headlines.
    — Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The origin story isn’t salacious in the least, Farrell says.
    — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the swirl of salacious storytelling that emerged from the events of 1951, what was true and what was mere mythology?
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • And while there are plenty of salacious and scandalous details that are unearthed in the book, Larkin doesn’t dwell in the bawdy.
    — Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Not everybody lives an over-the-top, salacious life, but for $500 or less anyone can dress the part.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
  • For others, the substance in question was not salacious and should not be kept sealed, the rulings said.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But in this case, their salacious reporting was all too true.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • That was, after all, the whole point of the profile — not to promote salacious gossip but to take away some of that stigma.
    — Kaylen Ralph, Teen Vogue, 3 May 2019
  • My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal.
    — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2018
  • When the meeting ended, Comey stayed behind with Trump to discuss the salacious dossier.
    — Philip Rucker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Since then, the details have become more salacious — and more troubling.
    — Rachel Wolfe, Vox, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the real saga was salacious enough to capture a lot of attention.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Here are three stories about high-school and college reunions that are a lot more salacious than white wine and small talk.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 12 July 2018
  • After being in this band for 20 years, and then all of a sudden there’s this salacious gossip.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Grimes' character -- who is decked out in a pink dress, long white gloves and a gold crown -- denies the salacious claim in a Mario-like accent.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 May 2021
  • Washington may have already moved on to the salacious matter of Neera Tanden’s tweets.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And, if the newspaper in question is a tabloid featuring a salacious photo and/or punny headline on the front page, discard it on some form of public transportation for a stranger to enjoy.
    — Mark Remy, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The salacious details in the book, purportedly taken from Porter’s diary, have fueled many of the conspiracy theories around Combs.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2024

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