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sleaze

[sleez] / sliz /
















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“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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

And so far, the familiar patina of hired-goon griminess and comical sleaze is unmistakable.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2024

There have been slips and accusations of sleaze.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024

We did an Yves Tumor music video and I was like, “no one is doing indie sleaze right now, I’m going to cover a pair of jeans in the Strokes patches, that’ll be so weird!”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

I always knew ReelTok was sleazy, but this is a whole new level of sleaze.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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