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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was seriously injured by a deranged man in their San Francisco home in October 2022, an event that then became the subject of salacious rumors.

From Salon

He also hit on less salacious revelations like the connection between his stutter and his drinking.

Unethical, salacious coverage further tilted the scales against them.

From Salon

Logan said in a statement that the county was being used as a pawn in both the civil lawsuit and federal corruption case and said the “voluminous records” the country released “refute the salacious allegations.”

A literary biography needn’t be an artful accretion of facts, nor should it traffic in salacious gossip and cheapen the subject at hand.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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