sleazy
Example Sentences
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It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.
“There might be some hangover from that. For someone who thinks his behavior was sleazy, they might not consider it a big deal because he calmed them during the pandemic.”
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to the top of the U.K. singles chart, died Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, it would only be another two decades before a new cadre of rock writers, hungry for their own version of sleazy, glamorous rock privilege, manifested the Strokes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
