Sleaze Definition

slēz
noun
The quality or condition of being sleazy; sleaziness.
Webster's New World
Anything cheap, vulgar, shoddy, etc.
Webster's New World
A shady, coarse, or immoral person.
Webster's New World
(uncountable) Low moral standards.
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(countable) (the commonest instance of the above) A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of disgust.

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verb

To act or progress in a sleazy manner.

He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
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To slander.

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Other Word Forms of Sleaze

Noun

Singular:
sleaze
Plural:
sleazes

Origin of Sleaze

  • Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.

    From Wiktionary

  • Back-formation from sleazy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sleaze Sentence Examples

  • Shipton may be sleaze of the year, but until he does something illegal, there isn't anything the law can do.

  • It's got unintentional humor, high camp, a teenage cat fight, a few lashings of gore and a bucketful of sleaze.

  • The Labor party is full of the same sleaze and drivel that we've always had to sit through.

  • William Trevitt could perhaps have exuded a little more sleaze, but he was a reliable partner.

  • So that's O.K. then ******************** political sleaze does not stick for long at Westminster.

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Words Starting With

SSLSLE

Words Ending With

EZEAZE

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