sleazy
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They will admit to themselves that you are unusually sleazy and moneygrubbing—Bitcoin!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The funny thing is, it doesn’t just make you depressed about plastic surgery and sad women and sleazy TV executives.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Fans were also impressed by the detailed locations on show, which included the interiors of apartments, rooftop bars and sleazy underground clubs.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Sports bettors losing money shouldn’t be surprising—where else would you expect sportsbook profits to come from?—but the manner of our collective losses seems both sleazy and unsustainable.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
We nickname him M.G., a make of car we consider slightly sleazy, a car one of our older cousins might get his Papi to buy him to impress the Island girls.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
The original is supposed to be from 1979 — post-“Halloween,” pre-“Friday the 13th” — so it has a grainier look, sleazier thrills and a fuller plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
This was a genius move: It allowed Reddit not only to keep its staff lean, but to distance the company from the sleazier content.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2018
And Tucci, playing a sleazier Tony Stark, is forever spuming the orders and insults of an undersize bully.
From Time ● Jun. 26, 2014
That made Kasem a fixture on news outlets that feed on the sleazier side of celebrity life at a time when it wasn’t clear he was aware of it or even able to understand.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2014
"Society's first reaction is that bankers are a bunch of sleaze balls, and this makes them look even sleazier."
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2013
Yet one doesn’t need an AI bot to explain why Grammarly’s stunt has to rank among the sleaziest misuses of AI technology yet to appear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
But of course this scandal touches on something deeper than garden-variety profiteering, even of the sleaziest sort.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2020
Altuve may both be the saddest and sleaziest figure in his team’s crime against baseball.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it.
From Starman's Quest by Stan Mack
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