Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sleazy condition, quality, or appearance: "His record of public service is untouched by any stain of shadiness or sleaze” ( James J. Kilpatrick).
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable low moral standards
- n. countable a person with low moral standards
- n. countable (the commonest instance of the above) a man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of disgust
WordNet 3.0
- n. tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
Etymologies
- From “sleazy”, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from sleazy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Tinseltown (warner Bros) is even importing sleaze from the United Kingdom.”
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“Bunning and the rest of the republican sleaze is what was left over …”
“As I have said before in the BBC's eyes Tory sleaze is a major story and the person implicated must go.”
“In contrast, Labour sleaze is just not possible and if proved is just inconvenient and any resignation must be accompanied by expressions of regret.”
“Tory sleaze is of interest to the BBC, Labour sleaze shhhhhh”
“Tory splits", like "Tory sleaze" is a serious BBC news story and will be given headline coverage.”
“I see that the BBC have mover the Peter Hain sleaze story.”
“The BBC coverage of the Speaker Martin sleaze story”
“Of course, sleaze is what your party is all about.”
“However, ongoing revelations of sleaze from the Rezko trial have prompted an increase in the volume of chatter and the degree of certainty that the other shoe is going to drop on Blago sometime soon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sleaze’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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Snake oil and shams
tawdry, sham, brummagem, huckster, steal, roadshow, meretricious, unctuous, purloin, sleaze, charlatan, snookered and 1 more...
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"Interesting" Words
These are words I like, but I realized do not belong on my poetry list. This is probably because they are mostly about sex.
unclassy, frisky, comely, buxom, tumescence, ravish, octodont, feisty, sleaze, creeper, pliant, classy and 1 more...
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bzandt's Words
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