salaciousness
Example Sentences
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He lamented “the salaciousness, the shame, the embarrassment, the clicks, the likes” that often come from sharing the photos online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Brennan: It’s so funny to me to hear this because as a craven newspaper editor, my instinct is that this controversy, this salaciousness, would be like drawing fireflies to a lamp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
The series' creators stripped "Beartown" of the melodrama that's often inherent to stories centered on teenagers, and of the salaciousness that lesser series lean on when writing about sex crimes.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2021
“It’s not about personalities or somebody’s abs. There’s no salaciousness about it, it is purely about the music.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
A clique were shocked at her; it was not her salaciousness they objected to but her success.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers