sleaze
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- noun
- /sliːz/
- Literature
- Far from being a fresh start, this is a return to the sleaze and scandal and ghosts of Cabinet's past.
- sleaze bag
- sleaze ball
- sleaze bucket
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- And so I saw the penny stock business and saw like the sleaze factor in that.
- But at the time, their rhetoric was they were going to make society more inclusive and more caring, an antidote to the greed and sleaze of the Tories.
- You know, they were trying to get me on like sleaze, right?
Examples
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People want to secede from Washington, DC and its sleaze and corruption.
Blog text (1) -
What about the sleaze and the depravity?
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But I sure as hell can tell the world the kind of sleaze you stand for.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's time for a real change in Washington and to send the sleaze back to Chicago!
Blog text (5) -
You don't look like your average sleaze.
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I don't want her to think of me as a sleaze.
Fiction book (1995) -
Perhaps, Sandbrook suggests, this was because a degree of sleaze seemed already to have infected every aspect of society.
Academic text (2011) -
Call it modern business practice, call it sleaze, call it whatever you like—that's the reality.
Blog text (4) -
But at the time, their rhetoric was they were going to make society more inclusive and more caring, an antidote to the greed and sleaze of the Tories.
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The film was criticized for its sleaze, which turned many viewers away from the theater.
Synonyms
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3.5
A quality that makes something look showy and not stylish
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A quality of looking cheap and in bad taste
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7.7
Being dirty and shabby in appearance because of old or untidy clothes
Antonyms
How Sleazy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sleaze is related to the adjective sleazy, which once described cheap, thin cloth, so a helpful image is a dirty, low-quality fabric. That's why sleaze now means 'low quality' or 'morally dirty' behaviour or things.