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  • adjective dominated or obsessed by sleaze.

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sleaze +‎ -ridden

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Examples

  • The term 'Labour' clearly refers to the Labour Party, who are sleaze-ridden, poorly-led and have bankrupted the country.

    Planned Changes to the Dictionary Dungeekin 2009

  • The New York protesters, and their counterparts in many other cities, tapped into an abiding sense of outrage among Americans who'd realized that Wall Street's sleaze-ridden institutions, especially investment banks had stolen the nation blind and then been rewarded for it.

    Time magazine's Protester cover reminds us of the value of Big Media | Dan Gillmor 2011

  • The term 'Labour' clearly refers to the Labour Party, who are sleaze-ridden, poorly-led and have bankrupted the country.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • Is that really the same as the sleaze-ridden NuLab lot?

    Huw Lewis on the defensive 2008

  • Blind, of course, to the fact that the US Secretary of State is a black individual with one hell of a lot more significant achievements - as in, having been the president of Stanford University, for one; being a concert pianist for another - than becoming a boss in the sleaze-ridden Chicago party machine.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • In the dying days of the Major government, it was Tony Blair who caught the spirit of the age when he damned the sleaze-ridden Conservatives as "knee-deep in dishonour".

    Blair and the politics of yesterday Burke's Corner 2007

  • In the dying days of the Major government, it was Tony Blair who caught the spirit of the age when he damned the sleaze-ridden Conservatives as "knee-deep in dishonour".

    Archive 2007-05-01 Burke's Corner 2007

  • It seems to me that most of the current hoard of anonymongs are slitherly little NuLabour creeps of the Sion Simon mould, who just can't face the fact that their slimy little sleaze-ridden party is being exposed for what it is, and have no other option left but to vent their childish fury by launching into hilarious tinfoil-hat accusations against Mr Dale.

    Teacher Sacked for Saying "Most Suicide Bombers are Muslims" 2007

  • FASCIST FUNDIE SUFFERS BILLION DOLLAR BEDROOM BUST-UPPittsburgh, Pa. right-wing king-maker splits his sleaze-ridden sheets and plenty of dough after door smashing motel bust-ups, $300 'asparagus' tongs on a convicted prostitute and one pissed off 60 year old wife.

    Wa Po: "The Low Road to Splitsville." Michael Caddell 2007

  • Perceptions Index covering 163 countries that some of the world's poorest nations were also the most sleaze-ridden, undermining international development efforts.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

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