Usually means: Appealing to sexual desire; provocative.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. salacious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. salacious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salacious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. salacious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. salacious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Salacious, salacious: Wordnik
  7. salacious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. salacious: Wiktionary
  9. salacious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. salacious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. salacious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. salacious: Dictionary.com
  13. salacious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. salacious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Salacious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. salacious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. salacious: Rhymezone
  18. Salacious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. salacious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. salacious: Free Dictionary
  21. salacious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. salacious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. salacious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salacious: Legal dictionary

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  1. salacious: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salacious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salacious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See salaciously as well.)

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adjective:  Promoting sexual desire or lust.
adjective:  Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

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