Sleaze - What does it mean?
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(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.
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.