Leazed vs Sleazed - What's the difference?
leazed | sleazed |
(sleaze)
(uncountable) low moral standards
* 2004 , London Review of Books, 19 Aug 2004:
* 1988 , The New Yorker, 11 Jan 1988:
(countable) a person with low moral standards
* 1999 , E. Brewer, Picking Up the Marbles , AuthorHouse, ISBN 978-1-58500-837-7, p. 162.
*:She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.
(countable) a man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of 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.
*1996 , S. Hoskinson Frommer, Buried in Quilts , Harlequin, ISBN 978-0-37326-204-5, p. 64.
*:Mother, he's such a sleaze! The way he looked at you!
sleazy material
To act or progress in a sleazy manner.
To slander.
As verbs the difference between leazed and sleazed
is that leazed is past tense of leaze while sleazed is past tense of sleaze.sleazed
English
Verb
(head)sleaze
English
Noun
- ministerial sleaze and mendacity
- The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.
- a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze
Verb
(sleaz)- He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
