sleazy
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The pen is a classic synecdoche, standing in for Paxton’s entire lifetime of sleazy behavior.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“They couldn’t understand why we were playing in such a sleazy place,” Busby later said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I did not find him sleazy to me at all," said Little-Pengelly.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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
I always knew ReelTok was sleazy, but this is a whole new level of sleaze.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
What makes this whole affair even sleazier is that it’s now apparent Bohn should never have been hired in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023
You may know Pascal from “The Mandalorian,” in which his helmeted bounty hunter shepherds a cuddly alien through the Star Wars galaxy’s sleazier precincts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
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
The guy who they had liked on holiday appeared slightly sleazier than they remembered.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
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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