Salacious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salacious \Sa*la"cious\, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping,
     lustful, fr. salire to leap. See {Salient}.]
     Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Sa*la"cious*ly}, adv. --
     {Sa*la"cious*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  salacious
       adj 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" [syn: {lubricious},
               {lustful}, {prurient}]
       2: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
          whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture";
          "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: {lewd},
           {obscene}, {raunchy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "salacious":
     Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue,
     carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic,
     eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, foul,
     foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish,
     gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, impure,
     incontinent, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd,
     libertine, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lurid, lustful,
     nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, orgasmic, orgastic,
     passionate, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy,
     ribald, satyric, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved,
     sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, steamy, sultry, unchaste,
     unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unsatisfied, vile