salacious

The word “salacious” has 3 syllables: sa-la-cious

It's pronounced as /səˈleɪ.ʃəs/


What is synonym and antonym for salacious?

In the thesaurus, “salacious” has 51 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for salacious along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for salacious

Antonyms for salacious

  • Victorian
  • celibate
  • chaste
  • clean
  • decent
  • frigid
  • immaculate
  • innocent
  • lily-white
  • maidenly
  • modest
  • monastic
  • monkish
  • moral
  • priggish
  • prim
  • prudish
  • pure
  • puritanical
  • straightlaced
  • straitlaced
  • undersexed
  • virginal
  • virtuous

Meanings of salacious

  • adjective
    1. Promoting sexual desire or lust.
    2. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

Example Sentences

  • The tabloid newspaper is known for its salacious headlines that often sensationalize celebrity scandals.
  • Despite its salacious content, the novel was widely popular for its gripping narrative and intriguing characters.
  • The comedian's jokes were often witty but occasionally veered into salacious territory, drawing mixed reactions from the audience.
  • The movie received criticism for its salacious scenes, which some viewers found gratuitous and unnecessary.
  • In the courtroom, the defense attorney objected to the prosecutor's attempt to introduce salacious evidence unrelated to the case.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to salacious, such as: Victorian, aroused, bawdy, carnal, celibate, chaste, clean.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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ill-bred

  • X-rated
  • abject
  • abrupt
  • animallike
  • antisocial
  • arch
  • arrogant
  • audacious
  • aweless
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  • backward
  • bad-mannered
  • barbarian
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bearish
  • blasphemous
  • blue
  • blunt
  • bold
  • bold-faced
  • boorish
  • brash
  • brassy
  • brazen
  • brusk
  • brusque
  • brutish
  • bumbling
  • bumptious
  • bungling
  • caddish
  • cantankerous
  • cavalier
  • cheap
  • cheeky
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • clodhopping
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • coarse
  • common
  • conceited
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • countrified
  • countryfied
  • crabbed
  • crass
  • cross
  • crude
  • crumby
  • crusty
  • curt
  • dastardly
  • degraded
  • dense
  • depraved
  • despicable
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • discourteous
  • disgraceful
  • disgracious
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • doltish
  • earthy
  • filthy
  • flip
  • flippant
  • foul
  • foulmouthed
  • fresh
  • gawky
  • graceless
  • green
  • grody
  • gross
  • gruff
  • grumpy
  • halting
  • ham-handed
  • haughty
  • heavy-handed
  • high-handed
  • ignoble
  • ignorant
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • illiberal
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • imperious
  • impertinent
  • impious
  • impolite
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in bad taste
  • inaffable
  • inconsiderate
  • incorrect
  • incult
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • inelegant
  • inept
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insolent
  • inurbane
  • irreverent
  • irritable
  • lacking
  • lewd
  • licentious
  • lippy
  • loud
  • loud-mouthed
  • loutish
  • low
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumpish
  • maladroit
  • malodorous
  • mannerless
  • mean
  • menial
  • misbehaved
  • miserable
  • moody
  • nasty
  • nervy
  • oafish
  • obscene
  • off-color
  • offensive
  • offhand
  • ornery
  • out of line
  • out-of-order
  • outrageous
  • peremptory
  • philistine
  • pompous
  • presumptuous
  • pretentious
  • primitive
  • profanatory
  • profane
  • provincial
  • raffish
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • ribald
  • ridiculous
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • roughneck
  • rude
  • rugged
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • sacrilegious
  • salacious
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • savage
  • scatological
  • scrubby
  • scruffy
  • scurvy
  • servile
  • shameless
  • sharp
  • shocking
  • smart-alecky
  • smutty
  • snippety
  • snippy
  • sordid
  • strange
  • sullen
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • surly
  • swinish
  • tacky
  • tactless
  • tasteless
  • thoughtless
  • ugly
  • unbecoming
  • uncalled-for
  • uncivil
  • uncivilized
  • unconscionable
  • uncontrolled
  • uncouth
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undecorous
  • undignified
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unfilial
  • ungainly
  • ungenteel
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungodly
  • ungracious
  • unhandsome
  • unhappy
  • unholy
  • unmannered
  • unmannerly
  • unpoised
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unseemly
  • unskillful
  • unsophisticated
  • untoward
  • unworthy
  • vile
  • vulgar
  • vulgarian
  • wicked
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wooden
  • wretched

coarsely

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abrasive
  • abusive
  • animallike
  • artlessly
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • barbarously
  • bargain-basement
  • barnyard
  • bawdy
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • blue
  • bluntly
  • boorish
  • boorishly
  • brazenly
  • broad
  • broken
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • bumpy
  • burred
  • cacophonous
  • cawing
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheesy
  • choked
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • coarse-grained
  • common
  • contemptuously
  • counterfeit
  • countrified
  • countryfied
  • cracked
  • crappy
  • crass
  • crassly
  • croaking
  • croaky
  • crude
  • crudely
  • curtly
  • cut-rate
  • debasing
  • depraved
  • dirty
  • discordant
  • discourteously
  • disgusting
  • disrespectfully
  • dissonant
  • distasteful
  • earthy
  • el cheapo
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fake
  • filthy
  • flashy
  • foul
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • graceless
  • grained
  • grainy
  • granular
  • granulated
  • grating
  • gravel
  • gravelly
  • grinding
  • gritty
  • gross
  • growling
  • growly
  • gruff
  • gutter
  • guttural
  • hard-core
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hoarse
  • husky
  • ill-bred
  • illiberal
  • immodest
  • imprudently
  • impure
  • inconsiderate
  • incult
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indecorously
  • indelicate
  • indifferent
  • inelegant
  • inexact
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • inharmonious
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insolently
  • irregular
  • jagged
  • jarring
  • junky
  • kibbled
  • kinky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knobbly
  • knobby
  • knurled
  • knurly
  • lackluster
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • lopsided
  • louche
  • loudly
  • lousy
  • loutish
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • lubberly
  • lumpish
  • lumpy
  • mannerless
  • mealy
  • mediocre
  • meretricious
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nonuniform
  • nubbly
  • nubby
  • oafish
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • ostentatious
  • pebbly
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitted
  • pocked
  • poor
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • provincial
  • racy
  • raffish
  • ragged
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • raucous
  • raunchy
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • ribald
  • rocky
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • roughened
  • roughly
  • roughneck
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rudely
  • rugged
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • rusty
  • rutted
  • rutty
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sandpapery
  • sandy
  • sassily
  • scatological
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scraggly
  • scraggy
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • screeching
  • scurrilous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • sham
  • sharply
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • smutty
  • snootily
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • splashy
  • squawking
  • stag
  • stoney
  • stony
  • strained
  • strangled
  • strident
  • suggestive
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tacky
  • tactlessly
  • tasteless
  • tawdry
  • terrible
  • thoughtless
  • throaty
  • trashy
  • trumpery
  • ultracheap
  • unabashedly
  • unacceptable
  • unaligned
  • unbalanced
  • unbecoming
  • uncivilized
  • uncivilly
  • uncouth
  • uncouthly
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undesirable
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • uneven
  • unfiltered
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungraciously
  • unmannered
  • unmannerly
  • unmelodious
  • unmusical
  • unpleasant
  • unpolished
  • unprintable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wanton
  • wavy
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched

debasing

  • X-rated
  • abasement
  • abashing
  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • adult
  • affronting
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • awkward
  • backbiting
  • bad name
  • bad odor
  • bad-mouthing
  • barbaric
  • baseness
  • bastardizing
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedroom
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • beneath one
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blemishing
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • brazen
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • coarse
  • comedown
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contempt
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • contumely
  • corrupt
  • corrupting
  • corruption
  • criminal
  • criticizing
  • crude
  • crying down
  • culpability
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasement
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degradation
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denigrating
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciating
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • descending
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • difficult
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirty
  • dirtying
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disbarment
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discredit
  • discrediting
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonor
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • disrepute
  • disrespect
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dust
  • earthy
  • egregious
  • embarrassing
  • erotic
  • erotical
  • execrating
  • false
  • fazing
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flagrant
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • foul
  • fouling
  • gross
  • hard-core
  • harming
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • humiliation
  • hurting
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • immodest
  • impairing
  • impossible
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • inexpedient
  • infamous
  • infamy
  • infra indignitatem
  • ingloriousness
  • inhuman
  • iniquitous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • intolerable
  • invective
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • kinky
  • lascivious
  • lessening
  • lewd
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • loss of honor
  • lowering
  • lustful
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • maligning
  • marring
  • mature
  • meanness
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notorious
  • obloquy
  • obscene
  • odious
  • odium
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • opprobrium
  • pejorative
  • perverted
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pollution
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • prostitution
  • prurient
  • put down
  • putting down
  • racy
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reviling
  • ribald
  • ridiculing
  • rude
  • ruining
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalous
  • scorn
  • scurrilous
  • sexy
  • shadow
  • shame
  • shameless
  • shaming
  • shocking
  • sinful
  • sinking
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slight
  • slighting
  • slur
  • smirch
  • smirching
  • smutty
  • soft-core
  • spiteful
  • spoiling
  • spot
  • stain
  • staining
  • stigma
  • subverting
  • suggestive
  • taint
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnish
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • traducing
  • troublesome
  • truculent
  • turpitude
  • unbearable
  • unbecoming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncomplimentary
  • ungodly
  • unpleasant
  • unprintable
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • untrue
  • unwieldy
  • unworthy of one
  • venality
  • vile
  • vilifying
  • villainous
  • violent
  • vitiating
  • vitriolic
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wrecking
  • writing off

lascivious

nasty

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • abusive
  • aching
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • afflictive
  • aggravating
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • barbarous
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • below the belt
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blackened
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • bleeding
  • blowy
  • blue
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • brackish
  • breezy
  • broad
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • catchy
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • chafing
  • chaotic
  • cheap
  • chilling
  • cloudy
  • cluttered
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • collied
  • complex
  • complicated
  • condemnable
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • corrupt
  • cowardly
  • cramping
  • crappy
  • craven
  • critical
  • crocked
  • cruddy
  • crude
  • cruel
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • currish
  • damaging
  • dastardly
  • daunting
  • debased
  • debasing
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • deleterious
  • delicate
  • demanding
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • deprecating
  • derogatory
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devious
  • difficult
  • dingy
  • dire
  • direful
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • disarranged
  • disarrayed
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discommoding
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • discreditable
  • disdainful
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • dishonorable
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • dismaying
  • disordered
  • disparaging
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dodgy
  • down and dirty
  • draggled
  • dread
  • dreadful
  • dusty
  • earthy
  • enflamed
  • envious
  • evil
  • exacting
  • exceptionable
  • excruciating
  • execrable
  • exhausting
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • festering
  • fierce
  • filthy
  • foggy
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • foul
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • fuliginous
  • fulsome
  • galling
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • germy
  • ghastly
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • greasy
  • grewsome
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grimy
  • grisly
  • gross
  • grotty
  • grubby
  • gruesome
  • grungy
  • gunky
  • gusty
  • gutter
  • hair-raising
  • hairy
  • harassing
  • hard
  • hard-core
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazy
  • heinous
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • illegal
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • importunate
  • improper
  • impure
  • inclement
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • infamous
  • inflamed
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • injurious
  • insanitary
  • intimidating
  • intricate
  • invidious
  • involved
  • irritating
  • itching
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jumbled
  • kinky
  • knotty
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • licentious
  • littered
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • louche
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • malodorous
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • mephitic
  • messed
  • messy
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • misty
  • monstrous
  • mucky
  • muddled
  • muddy
  • murderous
  • murky
  • mussed
  • mussy
  • nagging
  • naughty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • outrageous
  • overcast
  • painful
  • paltry
  • pernicious
  • persecutive
  • persecutory
  • perturbing
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • pinching
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poison
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • prickly
  • problem
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • profane
  • racy
  • rainy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • ratty
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • recondite
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • ribald
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rumpled
  • ruthless
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scabby
  • scabrous
  • scandalous
  • scary
  • scathing
  • scatological
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • seamy
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • skanky
  • sleazy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • smarting
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • snakelike
  • sneaking
  • snide
  • snotty
  • snowy
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • soiled
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sore
  • sorry
  • soupy
  • sour
  • spiny
  • spiteful
  • squalid
  • squally
  • stag
  • stained
  • sticky
  • stinging
  • stinking
  • stormy
  • stressful
  • stubborn
  • sucky
  • suggestive
  • sullied
  • sunless
  • swollen
  • tainted
  • tempestuous
  • tender
  • terrible
  • terrifying
  • thorny
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • torturous
  • touchy
  • tough
  • trashy
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • troublous
  • turbulent
  • ugly
  • unacceptable
  • unappetizing
  • unbecoming
  • unchivalrous
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • unclean
  • uncleaned
  • uncleanly
  • uncongenial
  • undesirable
  • unethical
  • unfair
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unjust
  • unkempt
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unprintable
  • unrighteous
  • unsanitary
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • unsportsmanlike
  • unsterile
  • unsterilized
  • untidy
  • unwanted
  • unwashed
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • unworthy
  • upsetting
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • wicked
  • windblown
  • windswept
  • worrisome
  • wounding
  • wretched
  • wrong
  • yucky
  • yukky

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