Thesaurus / salacious
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Fromentin was singing,—a ribald marching song, an unprintable thing, salacious and vilifying the Boches.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSONMr. Hewitt, of Birmingham, tells me that the common hen prefers a salacious cock, but is quite indifferent to colour.
MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN VOLUME IICHARLES DARWINThe affair was planned not only to secure the divorce, but also to do it in the most sensational and salacious manner.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOL. 13ELBERT HUBBARDMore refined entertainment has often been unpleasantly salacious, not because it was daring but because it was cowardly.
PIECES OF HATEHEYWOOD BROUNIt is the experience of New York managers that the run of the merely salacious play is generally short.
PIECES OF HATEHEYWOOD BROUNIt was a half-naked mass of brutified humanity, wild and salacious, the sexes intermingling with revolting indecency.
THE WEIRD ORIENTHENRY ILIOWIZISimilarly, the word "salacious," or lustful, had this origin.
THE COVENANT OF SALTHENRY CLAY TRUMBULL"It takes a nasty, salacious mind to make that kind of separation," I said.
DO UNTO OTHERSMARK CLIFTONHe had looked at life with the salacious eyes of a Peeping Tom.
THE SINS OF THE CHILDRENCOSMO HAMILTONIt has been shown time and time again that a farce, which is only salacious and nothing more, cannot live on the road.
FAMOUS PRIMA DONNASLEWIS CLINTON STRANGWORDS RELATED TO SALACIOUS
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- X-rated
- blue
- coarse
- crude
- dirty
- filthy
- foul
- foulmouthed
- gross
- ill-bred
- immodest
- immoral
- improper
- impure
- in bad taste
- indecorous
- indelicate
- lewd
- licentious
- malodorous
- off-color
- outrageous
- pornographic
- raunchy
- raw
- ridiculous
- rough
- salacious
- scatological
- shameless
- shocking
- smutty
- tasteless
- unbecoming
- undecorous
- unseemly
- untoward
- vile
- wicked
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