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Salacious vs Sordid - What's the difference?

salacious | sordid |

As adjectives the difference between salacious and sordid

is that salacious is promoting sexual desire or lust while sordid is dirty or squalid.

salacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Promoting sexual desire or lust.
  • Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

    • Synonyms

    * ardent, hot, dirty, lubricious

    Derived terms

    * salaciousness

    sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
  • Grasping.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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