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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry: "sleazy storefronts with torn industrial carpeting and dirt on the walls” ( Seattle Weekly).
  2. adj. Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable: Some sleazy characters hang around casinos.
  3. adj. Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
  4. adj. Thin and loosely woven; flimsy: The coat has a sleazy lining.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of thin or flimsy substance; composed of poor or light material: said of a textile fabric.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  2. adj. Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven
  2. adj. morally degraded
  3. adj. of very poor quality; flimsy.

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ruzuzu "Beside her, on a little thin clothespole, hung a mantle and a coat of sleazy material. The mantle had no fur linings, but very poor and shabby ones of heavy, shaggy black lamb."

    --The Romance of the Rose, Guilluame de Lorris & Jean de Meun Nov 14, 2010

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