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salacious.

Promoting sexual desire or lust.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/səˈleɪ.ʃəs/
  1. Promoting sexual desire or lust.

    utterly salacious
  2. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

    salacious gossip
    salacious details
Where this word comes from

Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious, ultimately from saliō + -acious.

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