Meaning & Definition of Salacious in English

1. Characterized by lust

• "Eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"

• "Her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"

• "Prurient literature"

• "Prurient thoughts"

• "A salacious rooster of a little man"

2. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

• "Lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"

• "An indecent gesture"

• "Obscene telephone calls"

• "Salacious limericks"