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Sleazy

adjective

(Spelt also slazy)

Of cloth; thin and loosely woven.

Of very poor quality; flimsy. Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny.

Morally degraded. Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid. "The seamy side of life" , "Sleazy characters hanging around casinos" , "Sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls" , "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" , "The squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

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Etymology of 'Sleazy'

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"Sleazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chesapeake Club, for one—a big-paunched man who always wore, summer and winter, a reasonably white waistcoat and a sleazy necktie; swore in a loud voice and dropped his g's when he talked. "Bit 'em off," his friends said, as he did the end of his cigars. He had, in honor of the occasion so contrived that his black coat and trousers matched this time, while his shoestring ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... flavour beneath the sprig of mint that floated on the top. Slowly she sipped it. And then for a moment she let her eyes wander across the faces lined up before the counter beside her. Next to her was an old woman in a sleazy black dress with a turban-like hat all swathed with a long black veil hemmed with black. She had looped it back in anticipation of the drink she would soon get. The old face was white and limned with wrinkles, and one hand, as it rested timidly on the edge of the counter, was heavily ...

— Stubble • George Looms

Words linked to "Sleazy" : sleaziness, colloquialism, sleaze, thin, disreputable, inferior, punk