Callahan dissembles nervously for a few moments before seeing the opportunity for a suitably provocative and salacious last word: "There's nothing like riding an animal," he maintains, totally deadpan, "it doesn't even have to be a horse... .. Apocalypse is out Monday.
The ancient Romans called a man in love salax – in a salted state – which is the origin of the word salacious, which is taking my feelings for a plate of beans a bit far, I know, but you get the idea.
In fact, of the three categories of bad words — salacious obscenity, scatalogical profanity, and sacrilegious blasphemy — only blasphemy seems to have retained its capacity to yield unpleasant consequences, especially if racial, ethnic, sexual-preference-related, and disability-related slurs are included along with the religious ones.
The last five concerned advertising copy and prohibited misrepresentation of the film's contents, "salacious copy", and the word "courtesan".
Sewell confessed to having had "easily a thousand sexual partners in a quinquennium" in his thirties – a revelation made all the more salacious by imagining its last word spoken in the author's own voice.
You learn why repressed Victorian Brits considered the word "leg" too salacious for pleasant company.
Those were in the days, of course, before the words "Washington intern" became salacious and sinister.
His words were blunt and salacious and outlined a vivid bill of particulars against the president of the United States.
One juicy morsel from The Word's smörgåsbord of slightly salacious highlights has attracted the attention of The Sun (a newspaper which, in one of those happy instances of synergy so prevalent in our contemporary media landscape, shares an owner with Norman's publisher).
Do not, in other words, pick up this book if you want anything salacious about Balding's private life, or her sexuality, which, right at the end of the book, is dealt with thus: "It was another few years before I realised I'd been looking in the wrong section of the library".
