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How to use salacious in a sentence

Fromentin was singing,—a ribald marching song, an unprintable thing, salacious and vilifying the Boches.

Mr. Hewitt, of Birmingham, tells me that the common hen prefers a salacious cock, but is quite indifferent to colour.

The affair was planned not only to secure the divorce, but also to do it in the most sensational and salacious manner.

More refined entertainment has often been unpleasantly salacious, not because it was daring but because it was cowardly.

It is the experience of New York managers that the run of the merely salacious play is generally short.

It was a half-naked mass of brutified humanity, wild and salacious, the sexes intermingling with revolting indecency.

Similarly, the word "salacious," or lustful, had this origin.

"It takes a nasty, salacious mind to make that kind of separation," I said.

He had looked at life with the salacious eyes of a Peeping Tom.

It 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 STRANG

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JUNE 24, 2021

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