salaciousness

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The novel was originally published anonymously as a publicity tactic to underscore the salaciousness of its material, just before the 1929 stock market crash.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 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 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

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

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