[syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, salacious]
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, salacious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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