salacious
Indecently focused on
Salacious describes material that is sexually explicit or titillating, often with a sense of being inappropriately so: salacious gossip, salacious details.
The word suggests prurient interest—dwelling on sexual matters in a way that's meant to arouse or scandalize rather than inform.
The tabloids ran salacious headlines about the affair.
Overtly sexual in manner
- lecherousShowing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
- concupiscentStrongly desiring, especially carnally
wanton · licentious · carnal · lubricious · lustful · debauched · dissolute · depraved
Hinting at impropriety
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- tantalizingTeasingly attractive, frustratingly desirable
- teasingPlayful, mild ridicule
- alluringPowerfully appealing
seductive · arousing · stimulating · racy · steamy · sultry · spicy · sizzling
lascivious
Overtly sexual in manner
- lecherousShowing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
concupiscent · wanton · licentious · carnal · lubricious · lustful · debauched · dissolute · depraved · leering
suggestive
Hinting at impropriety
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- tantalizingTeasingly attractive, frustratingly desirable
- teasingPlayful, mild ridicule
alluring · seductive · arousing · stimulating · racy · steamy · sultry · spicy · sizzling · risqué
smutty
Obscene or indecent
raunchy · filthy · crude · pornographic · explicit · off-color · risqué · improper · unseemly · indecorous
gossip
Informal talk spreading rumors
- tabloidSensationalist newspaper format
- exposéInvestigative journalism piece
- sensationalArousing intense excitement
lurid · sordid · shocking · shameless · tell-all · rumor · sleazy · tawdry · disreputable · notorious
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
- vulgarityvulgar humor, crude, crass, coarse, obscene
salaciouswholesome
Conducive to well-being
clean · innocent · unsexy · family-friendly · G-rated
salaciousprudish
Excessively concerned with propriety
puritanical · priggish · prim · straitlaced · Victorian