Today’s Words That Work: Salacious
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Something that’s salacious (suh-LAY-shus) – from the Latin for “lustful” – appeals to or stimulates sexual desire.
Example (as used by Frank Bruni in a NYT review of Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton): “Readers with limited appetites for food porn, beware. This is one salacious expedition into the folds of orecchiette and fine points of puntarelle.”
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