salacity

Never in my short life had I seen a girl or a woman with such a stench of salacity about her.

Even Porta was silent, which shows that there is more than just salacity in the world.

Perhaps it was the different poise of an innocent head which suddenly gave the impression of leering salacity.

She had had no experience with this class of individuals whatsoever, and did not know the salacity and humour of the theatrical tribe.

It is this compounding of salacity with heresy that forced the Holy Office to proscribe The Seven Minutes.

"Some of them don't even have names," Mr. Daley said, just movie posters in the window and gaudy neon signs promising a smorgasbord of salacity.

The students involved display a host of contradictory qualities: cheekiness and earnestness, progressive politics and retro sensibilities, salacity and sensitivity.

It was a paltry and pathetic little library of flagellation, titillation and salacity, incapable, he thought, of stimulating any emotion beyond ennui and vague disgust.

Now, District Attorney Duncan and Mr Yerkes are of one mind - that you were victimized by the salacity of The Seven Minutes.

Justice Sotomayor asked Richland about a hypothetical scenario in which a sergeant knew that various officers engaged in sexually explicit texting with romantic partners and decided to look at the transcripts out of sheer salacity.

Two weeks ago we went to work on the third one, the feeling that much of this youthful violence and thread stems from or is provoked by the overt salacity in reading matter and films in theaters and on television.

Of course the rowdy boys of the neighbourhood had been at work: many of these haggard windows were broken; the front door stood ajar, forced open; and idiot salacity, in white chalk, was smeared everywhere upon the pillars and stonework of the verandas.

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest.

"Venus Bound," John de St. Jorre's entertaining chronicle of the Olympia Press, charts the passage from father to son of a winning formula: be "economical with the truth" when dealing with authors, and float the publication of censor-defying literary salacity with a line of plain old dirty books.

She is a romantic, remote and lofty goal for aching unsatisfied longings conjured up in lonely dreams of a lost, normal, civilian existence so distant as to have become unreal, scared off by the swagger and bluster of army life; and at the same time she is an objective for womanless man's accumulated salacity.