salaciousness
Example Sentences
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Twenty five years later, I realized the truest role model of the series was there all along – hiding behind all the salaciousness.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2023
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
Put more prosaically, “The Real Lolita”—which has won a flurry of advance praise—hopes to transcend its essential salaciousness and its warmed-over genre clichés by appealing to something resembling restorative justice.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
Because while they want to convey all the salaciousness of the original, they also want to put across “the things that are dark and the things that are heartbreaking,” Rosin says.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2017
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
