See sleazy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "ticky-tacky"
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"word": "tenth-rate"
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"source": "Thesaurus:low-quality",
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"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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"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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"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": "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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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "muhalhal",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُهَلْهَل"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "radīʔ",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "رَدِيء"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "nekačestven",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "некачествен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "rònec"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "deixat"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "sòrdid"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "tronat"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "wěisuǒ",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "猥琐"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "chatrný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "mizerný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "ubohý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "kurja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "rähjäinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bâclé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pourri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "naze"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "mies"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "heruntergekommen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "meschino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "scadente"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "obskurny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "podejrzany"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "inferior"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nizkopróbnyj",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "низкопро́бный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "cutre"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"tags": [
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"word": "gacho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "sórdido"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate",
"word": "chungo"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "baḡīḍ",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَغِيض"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nechutný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oplzlý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slizký"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "skummel"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "lyssky"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "rivo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "törkyinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "frivole"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cochon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dépravé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "vulgär"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "frivol"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "schmutzig"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sordido"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "malizioso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "volgare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "obskurny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "plugawy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "vulgar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "murdar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vulgar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "grjáznyj",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "гря́зный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "postýdnyj",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "посты́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "pljugávyj",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "плюга́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "razvrátnyj",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "развра́тный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "raunchy; tastelessly sexual",
"word": "vulgar"
}
],
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}
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