sleaze

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For what you've traded in class you have made up for in sleaze, which isn't entirely a bad thing.

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  1. noun A sleazy condition, quality, or appearance: "His record of public service is untouched by any stain of shadiness or sleaze” (James J. Kilpatrick).

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  • Labels: Labour sleaze, the way we live now, UK politics, you get what you pay for —  UK Commentators
  • But the one to top all this sleaze is Labour MP Harry Cohen who brazenly claimed that the tax-funded second home allowance was part of his salary and that he was told in 1980 (to head off the revolt by our backbench Tory MPs) to go out and spend it.
  • While I often agree with the idea that "The scandal isn't what's illegal; it's what's legal" - and certainly in the cases you mention - it is still important to draw a distinction between the two kinds of sleaze, and the inability to do prevents one from tackling either type. —  Pestiside.hu
  • Back in July, local sleaze-rockers The Titts looked up from their nether regions long enough to consider a name change that might eventually catapult them into worldwide success, or at least mainstream radio play. —  NashvilleScene.com
  • No - He's dated so many women and seems like a sleaze now. —  PopSugar
 

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