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Antonyms for salacious

Grammar : Adj
Spell : suh-ley-shuhs
Phonetic Transcription : səˈleɪ ʃəs


Definition of salacious

Origin :
  • 1660s, from Latin salax (genitive 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 (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c.1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.
  • adj lascivious
Example sentences :
  • Similarly, the word "salacious," or lustful, had this origin.
  • Extract from : « The Covenant of Salt » by Henry Clay Trumbull
  • "It takes a nasty, salacious mind to make that kind of separation," I said.
  • Extract from : « Do Unto Others » by Mark Clifton
  • He had looked at life with the salacious eyes of a Peeping Tom.
  • Extract from : « The Sins of the Children » by Cosmo Hamilton
  • "The citizen of Chartres is money-getting, apathetic, and salacious," replied the Abbé Plomb.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • Is there one who prefers my writings to those of the salacious warbler, the wanton lacivious little Moore?
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 » by Various
  • Fromentin was singing,—a ribald marching song, an unprintable thing, salacious and vilifying the Boches.
  • Extract from : « The Wasted Generation » by Owen Johnson
  • In his leading novels he dwells a long time on salacious equivocation, or on a scene of lewdness.
  • Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine
  • The Premier is an unscrupulous character, the Bishop a salacious humbug.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of a Disappointed Man » by Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • This open appeal to salacious instincts is most objectionable and we can see no justification for allowing it.
  • Extract from : « Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee » by Ronald Macmillan Algie
  • The chief resurrectionist was one Abraham Hay-ward, known as a teller of salacious stories at the Athenaeum.
  • Extract from : « Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by George Jacob Holyoake

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