sleazy
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She sought to portray them as sleazy and pointedly decided to lean into an argument of recent months about Englishness.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The funny thing is, it doesn’t just make you depressed about plastic surgery and sad women and sleazy TV executives.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
As polished-glam and old-Hollywood as the references were, there were moments that also felt sleazy and fun in the way that Hollywood in 2007 did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Amit, to his astonishment, is released thanks to the intervention of a sleazy lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He’d be handsome, if he weren’t so sleazy.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
What makes this whole affair even sleazier is that it’s now apparent Bohn should never have been hired in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023
And Tucci, playing a sleazier Tony Stark, is forever spuming the orders and insults of an undersize bully.
From Time ● Jun. 26, 2014
That made Kasem a fixture on news outlets that feed on the sleazier side of celebrity life at a time when it wasn’t clear he was aware of it or even able to understand.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2014
Far from making life easier, January is turning football sleazier.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011
And when it comes to gleaning wisdom from the tabloid topics that have appeared on Ms. Winfrey’s sleazier shows, Ms. Kelley doesn’t do more than list them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2010
Yet one doesn’t need an AI bot to explain why Grammarly’s stunt has to rank among the sleaziest misuses of AI technology yet to appear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Even the sleaziest reality show wouldn't have the nerve to script something like this.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2024
Altuve may both be the saddest and sleaziest figure in his team’s crime against baseball.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it.
From Starman's Quest by Stan Mack
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