"skeevy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Carefully holding onto every dirty, skeevy piece of information he collected, he used it in his own best interests to ferret his way into a Vice Presidency",
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          "ref": "1980, Jerry Chase, Cinderella Wore Combat Boots, page 8:",
          "text": "GODZELLA. (After Cinderella has gone.) Mama, can we get a new stepsister? Cinderella is so icky and skeevy.",
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          "ref": "2013, Jessica Hagedorn, Manila Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 183:",
          "text": "He was huddled in the doorway of this skeevy noodle joint in Binondo, the kind of skeevy joint in a skeevy alley where you wouldn't expect to see a guy like Paco. Or maybe you would.",
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          "text": "The idea of hanging out with a skeevy poker player and all of his skeevy friends was not my idea of a good time. But I didn't want Lottie to go alone, either. I assumed the guy was dangerous.",
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