sleaze

The Liberal Democrats welcomed the plans as "the right step after years of Conservative sleaze which did so much damage to standards in public life".

It later garnered the unofficial title of indie sleaze, just in time to resonate across a new thing called social media.

“The exhibition tracks the pursuit of glamour and sleaze that I was looking for on Hollywood Boulevard, and eventually, improbably, ending up in a Paris museum,” Owens writes in the show notes.

"So I'm sitting there, minding my own business. They invite me into this Signal chat and now they're attacking me as a sleaze bag, I don't even get it."

There have been slips and accusations of sleaze.