How to use "salacious" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "salacious" in popular movie and book plots

  • With unexpected assistance from tabloid distributor mr Park (Jung Jin-young) and legendary wiretapper Baek Moon (Ko Chang-seok), Woo unravels the opaque and lucrative world of secret tips and salacious rumors.  - Tabloid Truth
  • After reading about a newly released movie The Moon Is Blue and its supposedly salacious content in a Boston newspaper, they decide it's the movie they want sent to the camp.  - The Moon is Not Blue
  • But Balu is the victim of the salacious book and starts visiting prostitutes.  - Banker Margayya
  • Kitty meets Cliffe in Italy and runs off with him, while Ashe is in England trying to suppress a salacious book Kitty has written.  - The Marriage of William Ashe
  • Charlotte tries to prove Van Wetter's innocence by requesting the help of Ward and Yardley, who are both investigative reporters from a fictional newspaper that happens to share a name with the real, historic black newspaper, The Miami Times, and are hungry for a salacious story.  - The Paperboy (2012 film)
  • Although he is torn by the demands of those around him, his producer wants salacious storylines and his sister craves something more edifying.  - The Trick in the Sheet
  • Bless attempts to prove Wetter's innocence by enlisting the support of two investigative reporters from a Miami newspaper hungry for a salacious story: Ambitious Yardley Acheman and naive, idealistic Ward James, who hails from the small town where Van Wetter is imprisoned and has mixed feelings about returning home.  - The Paperboy (novel)
  • He gets his chance when Batala (Jules Berry), the salacious head of the company, fakes his own death and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative.  - The Crime of Monsieur Lange
  • Each of the four previous lovers was overheard asking Maggie for a loan, Alison could be financially destitute by Maggie's remarriage and then there are the salacious memoires that have mysteriously disappeared.  - Death of a Hussy
  • She scours the town, uncovering salacious details of the girl's life, allying with Jin-tae, who is surprisingly sympathetic towards her plight, and unsettling everyone around her in her determined quest for justice.  - Mother (2009 film)
  • Earlier, Pete's friends—Ken, Harry, and Paul—try to get him to tell them about his honeymoon, but Pete says he is a changed man and refuses to tell any salacious tales.  - Marriage of Figaro (Mad Men)
  • Miller is convinced that Harmon is corrupt and makes an amateurish attempt at blackmailing him over his alleged (then-illegal) sale of salacious audio recordings.  - Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
  • They try to disrupt the relationship with salacious incidents taken from their mother's fiction books, presenting them as true things their mother has done, hoping Kingsley would be displeased.  - Young Ideas
  • Jadway, an American expatriate living in Europe, originally published in English by a publisher in France, and eventually picked up by various tawdry publishing companies in the United States, most of whom tried to emphasize the more lurid and salacious aspects of the book.  - The Seven Minutes (film)
  • The next day they go to a restaurant, where Will overhears Anna being spoken of in salacious terms and defends her.  - Notting Hill (film)
  • The book is serialized in the local newspaper, and the Literary Circle, led by outraged busybody Rebecca Perry (Spring Byington), forces the newspaper's owner Jed Waterbury (Thomas Mitchell) to stop printing the salacious installments.  - Theodora Goes Wild

Example sentences for "salacious" in interesting articles

  • "Who needs to stay for the actual work? Plus," he added, flashing a salacious smile, "that way you meet more girls." After the break, we toured the empty office—the agents weren't due in until later.  - My Summer at an Indian Call Center
  • "Who needs to stay for the actual work? Plus," he added, flashing a salacious smile, "that way you meet more girls." After the break, we toured the empty office—the agents weren't due in until later.  - My summer at an Indian call center
  • Buried in its trash bin he found a 17-page marathon chat between his wife in Palo Alto and Saloner in Dubai from November 4, five days after Saloner’s note to Etchemendy, one so graphic and salacious that before producing it in court Phills’s own lawyers redacted it.  - Inside Stanford Business School’s Spiraling Sex Scandal
  • Articles have to be their own advertisements—they can’t rely on the bundle to bring in readers—and the best advertising is salacious and exaggerated.Madrigal suggested that the newest successful media bundle is the podcast.  - How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
  • You have the political question whether this is a case created to damage WikiLeaks... ANDREW FOWLER: At the time though, Mattson thought it was little more than salacious scandal. THOMAS MATTSSON: I think that many people...  - Sex, Lies and Julian Assange
  • Buried in its trash bin he found a 17-page marathon chat between his wife in Palo Alto and Saloner in Dubai from November 4, five days after Saloner’s note to Etchemendy, one so graphic and salacious that before producing it in court Phills’s own lawyers redacted it.  - Inside Stanford Business School’s Spiraling Sex Scandal
  • By creating content that spoke directly to a particular constituency, with enticing or even salacious headlines, anyone could create articles that would be shared widely, regardless of what they linked to.  - Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital
  • The app’s core users, who’d flocked to it in part for the salacious content only possible under total anonymity, had lost interest.  - Anonymous social apps fail because anonymity removes meaning, enables meanness

Meaning of "salacious" in English

  • suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
    Examples
    - an indecent gesture
    - obscene telephone calls
    - salacious limericks
  • characterized by lust
    Examples
    - her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature
    - prurient literature
    - prurient thoughts
    - a salacious rooster of a little man

Meaning of "salacious" in Hindi

  • कामुक ( Kamuk, kaamuk)

Synonyms of "salacious"

  • prurient
  • lustful
  • lubricious
  • lewd
  • obscene
  • raunchy

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