sleaze
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sleaze
- /sliːz/
Rhymes with -iːz
Where it comes from
Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.
noun sleazes
- Low moral standards. The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.
- Political corruption. ministerial sleaze and mendacity
- A person of low moral standards. She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.
- A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust. 1989, Weekly World News, "My hubby robbed the cradle and left me with the baby", 7 November, p. 42. I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down.
- Sleazy material or publications. a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze
verb sleazes · sleazing · sleazed
- To act or progress in a sleazy manner. He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
- To slander.
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noun low moral standards
| Português | falta de princípios, corrupção |
|---|---|
| Français | débauche |
| Deutsch | Verderbtheit |
| Italiano | malcostume |
| Ελληνικά | αίσχη aíschi |
| Русский | амора́льность amorálʹnostʹ |
| עברית | זִמָּה zimmá |
noun a person with low moral standards
| Português | canalha, corrupto |
|---|---|
| Français | rustre, pervers |
| Italiano | scostumato |
| Русский | дешёвка dešóvka, ничто́жество ničtóžestvo |
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