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
The lives and deaths of Kennedy family members provide grist for endless conspiracy theorizing, tabloid salaciousness, celebrity-worship and superstition.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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
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 Summers, Montague
