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sleaze

[ sleez ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. a contemptible or vulgar person.
  2. a shabby or slovenly person.
  3. a sleazy quality, character, or atmosphere; shoddiness; vulgarity.
  4. sleazy behavior, content, appearance, or the like.


sleaze

/ sliːz /

noun

  1. sleaziness
  2. dishonest, disreputable, or immoral behaviour, especially of public officials or employees

    political sleaze

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleaze1

First recorded in 1950–55; back formation from sleazy
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Example Sentences

This poses a major problem for anti-corruption efforts, which too often shine light on sleaze and assume that voters will take it from there.

Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.

For most voters, internal party cohesion hardly seemed to be the most pressing issue amid a slew of sleaze allegations.

The point is that sexual sleaze is more repellent when everyone can see it up close.

But in the course of the campaign, Olmert the idealist would not be able to free himself from Olmert the sleaze.

God knows a sleaze-addicted media and public had to wait long enough.

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