salaciousness
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The series' creators stripped "Beartown" of the melodrama that's often inherent to stories centered on teenagers, and of the salaciousness that lesser series lean on when writing about sex crimes.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2021
Put more prosaically, “The Real Lolita”—which has won a flurry of advance praise—hopes to transcend its essential salaciousness and its warmed-over genre clichés by appealing to something resembling restorative justice.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
Because while they want to convey all the salaciousness of the original, they also want to put across “the things that are dark and the things that are heartbreaking,” Rosin says.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2017
Bonnet diffuses the salaciousness of this proposition, however, by featuring his hands gently cradling a small bouquet of yellow flowers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2016
A clique were shocked at her; it was not her salaciousness they objected to but her success.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers
