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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsliː.zi/ Audio: en-us-sleazy.ogg Forms: sleazier [comparative], sleaziest [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːzi Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly a corruption of Silesia, through a word meaning “Silesian cloth”. Silesia used to be the most important location of Germany’s weaving industry. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=Origin obscure}} Origin obscure Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} sleazy (comparative sleazier, superlative sleaziest)
  1. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: low-quality Translations (marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate): مُهَلْهَل (muhalhal) [masculine] (Arabic), رَدِيء (radīʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), некачествен (nekačestven) (Bulgarian), rònec (Catalan), deixat (Catalan), sòrdid (Catalan), tronat (Catalan), 猥琐 (wěisuǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), chatrný (Czech), mizerný (Czech), ubohý (Czech), kurja (Finnish), rähjäinen (Finnish), mies (German), schäbig (German), heruntergekommen (German), meschino [masculine] (Italian), scadente (Italian), obskurny (Polish), podejrzany (Polish), inferior (Portuguese), низкопро́бный (nizkopróbnyj) (Russian), cutre (Spanish), gacho [Mexico] (Spanish), sórdido (Spanish), chungo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sleazy-en-adj-3C~xRcM2 Disambiguation of Personality: 78 0 14 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 7 10 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 8 8 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 6 8 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 78 6 10 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 76 7 10 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 76 7 10 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 79 6 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 87 4 6 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 76 7 10 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 74 7 11 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 88 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 70 17 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 72 12 10 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 79 6 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 76 7 10 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 88 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 92 4 3 2 Disambiguation of 'marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate': 97 2 1 1
  2. Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual. Synonyms: skeezy Translations (raunchy; tastelessly sexual): بَغِيض (baḡīḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), nechutný [masculine] (Czech), oplzlý [masculine] (Czech), slizký [masculine] (Czech), skummel (Danish), lyssky (Danish), kurja (Finnish), törkyinen (Finnish), vulgär (German), frivol (German), schmutzig (German), sordido [masculine] (Italian), malizioso [masculine] (Italian), volgare (Italian), obskurny (Polish), plugawy (Polish), vulgar (Portuguese), murdar [masculine] (Romanian), vulgar [masculine] (Romanian), гря́зный (grjáznyj) (Russian), посты́дный (postýdnyj) (Russian), плюга́вый (pljugávyj) (Russian), развра́тный (razvrátnyj) [masculine] (Russian), vulgar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sleazy-en-adj-O3vWgQ2O Disambiguation of 'raunchy; tastelessly sexual': 18 80 1 1
  3. Untrustworthy. Synonyms: unreliable, questionable, sketchy, shady, slimy
    Sense id: en-sleazy-en-adj-33E4ANck
  4. (dated, of fabric) Thin and flimsy. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-sleazy-en-adj-B6N6-g-W
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sleaze, sleaziness

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1979, “Sleazy”, in Live and Sleazy, performed by Village People:",
          "text": "Sleazy, yeah, I like it sleazy / Oh let's get nasty baby / I like it sleazy / I'll take you for a bad ride",
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          "ref": "2000, Stephen D. Dighton, Locked In, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 226:",
          "text": "Nancy knew it was a sleazy movie because the channel's logo appeared in the lower right corner of the screen. This satellite station only showed sleazy films at this time of the night. Actually its selection of films was trashy at any time, but the after-eleven fare was especially so. […] It's garbage, a step or two removed from pornography.",
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          "ref": "1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:",
          "text": "She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.",
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          "ref": "2007, Milton T. Burton, The Sweet and the Dead, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "The Gold Dust was a sleazy place, a clip joint with crooked gambling tables in the back and a fleet of B-girls who would give you a few minutes' vapid conversation and a peek at the tops of their breasts if you bought them a three-dollar drink […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Gary Patella, Diary of an Evil Genius, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38:",
          "text": "Their reasons are mainly because they are simply people that I would consider sleazy— sleazy, slimy, shady, whatever term you want to use. The point is that, I am not one of them.",
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          "ref": "1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter:",
          "text": "Shortly after his return in infirm old age to his native land, a little narrative of his adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, appeared among the peddlers, written, probably, not by himself, but taken down from his lips by another.",
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          "ref": "1912, Edna Ferber, “What She Wore”, in Buttered Side Down:",
          "text": "I hesitate to describe Sophy Epstein's dress. You won't like it. In the first place, it was cut too low, front and back, for a shoe clerk in a downtown loft. It was a black dress, near-princess in style, very tight as to fit, very short as to skirt, very sleazy as to material.",
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          "ref": "1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Main Street:",
          "text": "She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled \"Papa\" and \"Mama.\"",
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          "ref": "1920, Robert Welles Ritchie, chapter 4, in Trails to Two Moons:",
          "text": "Hilma donned her oldest dress, carried pick and shovel to a flower-blown knoll above the creek and there chose a site for the grave. […] Soon the sleazy dress clung to her back with a sweat of toil, and its stretched web undulated to the smooth play of muscles from shoulder to midback.",
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          "ref": "1979, “Sleazy”, in Live and Sleazy, performed by Village People:",
          "text": "Sleazy, yeah, I like it sleazy / Oh let's get nasty baby / I like it sleazy / I'll take you for a bad ride",
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          "text": "Nancy knew it was a sleazy movie because the channel's logo appeared in the lower right corner of the screen. This satellite station only showed sleazy films at this time of the night. Actually its selection of films was trashy at any time, but the after-eleven fare was especially so. […] It's garbage, a step or two removed from pornography.",
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          "ref": "1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:",
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          "ref": "2007, Milton T. Burton, The Sweet and the Dead, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "The Gold Dust was a sleazy place, a clip joint with crooked gambling tables in the back and a fleet of B-girls who would give you a few minutes' vapid conversation and a peek at the tops of their breasts if you bought them a three-dollar drink […]",
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          "ref": "2011, Gary Patella, Diary of an Evil Genius, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38:",
          "text": "Their reasons are mainly because they are simply people that I would consider sleazy— sleazy, slimy, shady, whatever term you want to use. The point is that, I am not one of them.",
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          "text": "Shortly after his return in infirm old age to his native land, a little narrative of his adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, appeared among the peddlers, written, probably, not by himself, but taken down from his lips by another.",
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Edna Ferber, “What She Wore”, in Buttered Side Down:",
          "text": "I hesitate to describe Sophy Epstein's dress. You won't like it. In the first place, it was cut too low, front and back, for a shoe clerk in a downtown loft. It was a black dress, near-princess in style, very tight as to fit, very short as to skirt, very sleazy as to material.",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "muhalhal",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "مُهَلْهَل"
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      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
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      "word": "رَدِيء"
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      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "некачествен"
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "rònec"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "deixat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "sòrdid"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "tronat"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wěisuǒ",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "猥琐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "chatrný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "mizerný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "ubohý"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "kurja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "rähjäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "mies"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "schäbig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "heruntergekommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "meschino"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "scadente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "obskurny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "podejrzany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "inferior"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nizkopróbnyj",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "низкопро́бный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "cutre"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico"
      ],
      "word": "gacho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "sórdido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
      "word": "chungo"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "baḡīḍ",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "بَغِيض"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "nechutný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "oplzlý"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "slizký"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "skummel"
    },
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "lyssky"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "kurja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "törkyinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "vulgär"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "frivol"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "schmutzig"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sordido"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "malizioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "volgare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "obskurny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "plugawy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "vulgar"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "murdar"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "vulgar"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznyj",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "гря́зный"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postýdnyj",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "посты́дный"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pljugávyj",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "плюга́вый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razvrátnyj",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "развра́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
      "word": "vulgar"
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}

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