salaciousness

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From there, it’s a grab bag of salaciousness and cliches amplified by bad writing and laughable performances.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

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

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