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sa·la·cious    Audio Help   [suh-ley-shuhs] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.lustful or lecherous.
2.(of writings, pictures, etc.) obscene; grossly indecent.
[Origin: 1635–45; < L salāci- (s. of salāx) lustful (deriv. of salīre to jump, move spasmodically, spurt; see salient, saltation) + -ous]

—Related forms
sa·la·cious·ly, adverb
sa·la·cious·ness, sa·lac·i·ty    Audio Help   [suh-las-i-tee] Pronunciation Key, noun

—Synonyms 1. lewd, wanton, lascivious, libidinous. 2. pornographic.
—Antonyms 1. modest.
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sa·la·cious    Audio Help   (sə-lā'shəs)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
  2. Lustful; bawdy.


[From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]

sa·la'cious·ly adv., sa·la'cious·ness, sa·lac'i·ty (sə-lās'ĭ-tē) n.
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salacious 
1661, from L. salax (gen. salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient). Earliest form of the word in Eng. is salacity (1605).

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salacious

adjective
1. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious] 
2. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd] 

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Salacious

Sa*la"cious\, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.] Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. --Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

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