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sleazy

[slee-zee, sley-zee] / ˈsli zi, ˈsleɪ zi /


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"I did not find him sleazy to me at all," said Little-Pengelly.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Amit, to his astonishment, is released thanks to the intervention of a sleazy lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

But the expected seductive pull of the film’s sleazy pulp is noticeably lacking, mostly because the writer-director’s bloody set pieces aren’t especially imaginative.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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

Max flatters me but not in a sleazy way.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

Aladdin Sane’s Ziggy-goes-to-America concept in miniature, The Jean Genie is tougher and sleazier than anything on Ziggy Stardust – its I’m A Man-ish guitar riff and bursts of harmonica sound absolutely filthy.

From The Guardian Mar. 19, 2020

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

I mean, it’s harder to get sleazier than that outside a boiler room.

From New York Times Jul. 17, 2010

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

Even the sleaziest reality show wouldn't have the nerve to script something like this.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2024

Altuve may both be the saddest and sleaziest figure in his team’s crime against baseball.

From Washington Times Feb. 25, 2020

There was another million of 'Mother Hubbard' wrappers, all of the sleaziest print and scrimpest pattern, with inch-wide hems at bottom and no fastening to speak of—wrappers enough to disfigure every female in Southern Texas.

From A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work by Barton, Clara




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