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"ref": "2008, Roxanne St. Claire, Then You Hide, page 5",
"text": "He bought cops like this sleazebucket, bought juries, bought witnesses, bought loyalty.",
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"ref": "2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties",
"text": "Apparently the Griner brothers weren't the only sleazebuckets abroad with explosives.",
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"ref": "2019, Michael Betcherman, The Justice Project",
"text": "He instantly recognized the older of the two, a distinguished-looking man with a craggy face and a full head of silver hair—the Chief, the sleazebucket who had made a move on his mom .",
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"ref": "2023, Bob Woodward, The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump, page 189",
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"ref": "1995, Faye Kellerman, “Bonding”, in Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, editor, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, page 477",
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"ref": "2010, Teri Louise Kelly, American Blow Job: A Novel",
"text": "We're in a sleaze bucket of a place, but for eight bucks a night you can hardly grumble.",
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"ref": "2013, Jack L. Chalker, When the Changewinds Blow",
"text": "He put us in this sleaze bucket in the worst part of town.",
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"ref": "2022, Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon, page 236",
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"ref": "1979, “Guyana: A question of taste”, in Chicago, volume 28, page 14",
"text": "Such hypocrisy hit Upfront like spiked Kool-Aid recently when Tribune TV critic Gary Deeb began his column: \"ABC, the sleazebucket network that has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years by exploiting the cruelest and most antisocial instincts of the mass television audience , is trying to welch out of a solemn promise it made more than a year ago.\"",
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"ref": "2011, Ian Watson, The Flies of Memory",
"text": "Be it noted that you're involved in such sleazebucket capers.",
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"ref": "2015, Murray Leeder, Halloween, page 1981",
"text": "One of the things a short scene can't show you is that Halloween is directed and acted with a great deal more artistry and craftsmanship than the sleazebucket movies we've been talking about.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Teri Louise Kelly, American Blow Job: A Novel",
"text": "We're in a sleaze bucket of a place, but for eight bucks a night you can hardly grumble.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Jack L. Chalker, When the Changewinds Blow",
"text": "He put us in this sleaze bucket in the worst part of town.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon, page 236",
"text": "There's bound to be one in a sleazebucket place like this.",
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"text": "I loved this stuff when I was 14, and I never thought \"sleazebucket\" when it got dazzlingly vulgar.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ian Watson, The Flies of Memory",
"text": "Be it noted that you're involved in such sleazebucket capers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2015, Murray Leeder, Halloween, page 1981",
"text": "One of the things a short scene can't show you is that Halloween is directed and acted with a great deal more artistry and craftsmanship than the sleazebucket movies we've been talking about.",
"type": "quotation"
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