salacious
Example Sentences
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“The government always cherry picks what they feel are salacious little tidbits to spice up the indictment,” said his lawyer, William J. Brennan.
The first reports of the crime were mostly objective — one newspaper described Short as a “beauteous 22-year-old” — but these soon devolved into salacious gutter journalism.
From Los Angeles Times
The combination of salacious scandals and heavily publicized election losses have undercut the group’s image.
From Salon
Although similar imagery would grace the covers of salacious pulp magazines after World War I, there was a difference between Picou’s era and that of the pulps.
There has always been salacious gossip about the royal family, and misbehaving royals, but this time it felt much worse.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
