"sleaze-merchant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "sleaze + merchant",
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          "text": "Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.",
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        "A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material"
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