salacity meaning

Noun: salacity  su'lasitee

1. The trait of behaving in an obscene manner
   - obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness

Derived forms: salacities

See also: salacious

Type of: indecency

Examples

1. she had had no experience with this class of individuals whatsoever, and did not know the salacity and humour of the theatrical tribe
2. 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 . " Does that officer have any expectation of privacy that his boss won't just listen in out of prurient interest ? " Richland answered that the motive of the examiner should not affect a privacy expectation . " [ W ] hen the filthy-minded police chief listens in, it's a very bad thing, but it's not it's not offending your right of privacy, " concluded Justice Antonin Scalia.