Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, star of Roman Holiday and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, has died, just just days after his character in To Kill a Mockingbird was voted the greatest hero in Hollywood history. He was 87.
The definition of salacious is someone or something that is sexually suggestive. An example of salacious reading material is a porn magazine. 1  Archaic lecherous; lustful.  characterized by an excessive or improper emphasis on sexual matters: a salacious bit of gossip.
The chief resurrectionist was one Abraham Hay-ward, known as a teller of salacious stories at the Athenaeum. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Jacob Holyoake. Similarly, the word salacious, or lustful, had this origin. The Covenant of Salt Henry Clay Trumbull. Mr. Hewitt, of Birmingham, tells me that the common hen prefers a salacious cock, but is quite indifferent to colour.