Lexic.us

Definition of Salacious

1. Adjective. Characterized by lust. "A salacious rooster of a little man"

2. Adjective. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness. "Salacious limericks"

Definition of Salacious

1. n. Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.

Definition of Salacious

1. Adjective. Promoting sexual desire or lust. ¹

2. Adjective. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salacious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salacious

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Literary usage of Salacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some Political Satires of the Seventeenth Century: Selected from the by John Wilmot Rochester, John Denham, Andrew Marvell (1885)
"BETWEEN A salacious MONARCH, AND HIS BARREN CONSORT. Anonymous. Consort. WHY, my good Liege, will you debase your Throne. And with ignoble Stains defile ..."

2. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... as she who had had some self-experience of the salacious habits of this sort of gentry. " Where children are bred." Gay. " Some sprigs of that bed, ..."

3. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"... they are designed for breeding, they are put together in a yard, five hens to a cock ; for this bird, like all of the poultry kind, is very salacious. ..."

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