salacity
IPA: sˈæɫʌsɪti
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
- (countable) An act that is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy); a salacious image or piece of writing.
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Examples of "salacity" in Sentences
- To be honest, I think bloggerheadstv is self-indulgent salacity.
- Mr. Hendrickson handles this material sympathetically and intelligently, and entirely without salacity.
- Or English public schools! imposing the stain of salacity on perfectly decent old English words like “gay”
- She had had no experience with this class of individuals whatsoever, and did not know the salacity and humour of the theatrical tribe.
- If you really want to argue about it, shoot me an email so that the other posters don't have to slog through this self-indulgent salacity...
- Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem, [2990] short lived because of their salacity, which is very frequent, as
- It was a paltry and pathetic little library of flagellation, titillation and salacity, incapable, he thought, of stimulating any emotion beyond ennui and vague disgust.
- In this astonishingly fine and serious book, which by no means skips the elements of scandal and salacity, Zachary Leader has struck a near-ideal balance between the life and the work, and has traced the filiations between the two without any strain or pretension.
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