How to Use salacious in a Sentence

salacious

adjective

• The fact is, this photo is sweet, and not in the least bit salacious.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2019
• The antics of the gods on Mount Olympus would rival the plot of the most salacious soap opera.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• The couple disposed of the salacious garb, but the cutouts remain in the basement.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 28 Aug. 2019
• But her father skips over the salacious parts with her.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
• The salacious tabloid sell is that LaBeouf wrote this script about his life while in rehab.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
• The most salacious rumor to spring forth from the Pump Rules fandom should be one of the more easy to disprove.
  — Vulture, 6 June 2023
• People think that a strip club is going to be a place that is so salacious.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 7 June 2022
• For many adolescent males like us back then, salacious content was the coin of the realm.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
• Yet the media coverage in both the Biden and Pence cases for the first few days was salacious.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• The blue dress was probably the No. 1 most salacious thing, but this would be a close second.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• That would leave most for only the most salacious websites.
  — Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
• Ahead of its release, Spare leaked, with some of the more salacious stories from the book hitting the headlines.
  — Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2023
• The origin story isn’t salacious in the least, Farrell says.
  — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• In the swirl of salacious storytelling that emerged from the events of 1951, what was true and what was mere mythology?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
• And while there are plenty of salacious and scandalous details that are unearthed in the book, Larkin doesn’t dwell in the bawdy.
  — Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Not everybody lives an over-the-top, salacious life, but for $500 or less anyone can dress the part.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
• For others, the substance in question was not salacious and should not be kept sealed, the rulings said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• But in this case, their salacious reporting was all too true.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• That was, after all, the whole point of the profile — not to promote salacious gossip but to take away some of that stigma.
  — Kaylen Ralph, Teen Vogue, 3 May 2019
• My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2018
• When the meeting ended, Comey stayed behind with Trump to discuss the salacious dossier.
  — Philip Rucker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Still, the real saga was salacious enough to capture a lot of attention.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Here are three stories about high-school and college reunions that are a lot more salacious than white wine and small talk.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 12 July 2018
• After being in this band for 20 years, and then all of a sudden there’s this salacious gossip.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• Grimes' character -- who is decked out in a pink dress, long white gloves and a gold crown -- denies the salacious claim in a Mario-like accent.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 May 2021
• Washington may have already moved on to the salacious matter of Neera Tanden’s tweets.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2020
• Twas perhaps the most salacious instance of yacht PDA ever.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 July 2021
• And, if the newspaper in question is a tabloid featuring a salacious photo and/or punny headline on the front page, discard it on some form of public transportation for a stranger to enjoy.
  — Mark Remy, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
• The salacious details in the book, purportedly taken from Porter’s diary, have fueled many of the conspiracy theories around Combs.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024