sleazy
adjective
slea·zy
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sleazier;
sleaziest
Definition of sleazy
2a
: marked by low character or quality
sleazy tabloids
b
: squalid, dilapidated
sleazy bars
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Other Words from sleazy
sleazily
\ ˈslē-zə-lē
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adverb
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adverb
sleaziness
\ ˈslē-zē-nəs
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noun
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noun
Examples of sleazy in a Sentence
a dancer in a sleazy outfit
a sleazy lothario who is always on the make
Recent Examples on the Web
With its use of a sleazy master of ceremonies (portrayed by Joel Grey), the musical juxtaposed its raunchy nightclub numbers with the stories of people living in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince dies at 91," 31 July 2019 Elwes will join the cast as Mayor Kline, who is described as handsome, slick and sleazy. — Fox News, "'Stranger Things' won't return for new season until 2019," 30 July 2018 In April, the exchange added rules that would prohibit members from holding sleazy parties at venues such as lapdancing clubs and casinos under a new code of conduct. — Mark Burton, Fortune, "A Final Bastion of on-the-Job Drinking Vows to Sober Up," 14 June 2019 But Catherine, her aunt and manager, stymies her ambitions both with an ironclad contractual agreement and with a sleazy doctor who keeps Ashley on a diet of docility-ensuring drugs. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Black Mirror’s Miley Cyrus Episode Isn’t That Far-Fetched," 6 June 2019 Nixon appointed Arthur Burns to run the Fed during his first term and then sought to control Fed policy through both overt and sleazy means. — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "Judy Shelton’s potential nomination to a Federal Reserve Board seat, explained," 5 June 2019 Roth has proved by the mastery and integrity of his writing the difference between the erotic and the pornographic, in our sleazy era of the latter. — Tina Jordan And Susan Ellingwood, New York Times, "A Philip Roth Reader," 23 May 2018 After glass block began turning up in public restrooms, municipal swimming pools and diners in the 1980s, it was maligned as retrograde and even sleazy. — Karen Bruno And, WSJ, "Glass Block in Décor: Cheesy or Charming?," 7 Feb. 2019 Murdoch is the second son of Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul best known for the sleazy tabloid empire that in the US includes Fox News and in the UK included printing actual uncensored tits in its papers until 2015. — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, "If James Murdoch is the new Tesla chairman, that’s bad news for Elon Musk," 12 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sleazy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for sleazy
sleazy
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of sleazy
informal
: dishonest or immoral
: dirty and in bad condition from being neglected
: not decent or socially respectable
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