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

The Third Reich dampened salaciousness and frivolity, but schlager triumphantly returned after the second world war; its innate cheer also became a celebration of the German economic miracle.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2020

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

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 Summers, Montague