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Meanings of sleazy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sordid"
Examples for "sordid"
1
Does a newspaper have the right to publish such details, however sordid?
2
The land is too pure to admit the sordid and the base.
3
Behind the sordid details of Kenneth Starr's report lurk two critical questions.
4
But many other facts about his strange and sordid case remained obscured.
5
There were no natural objects in the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops.
1
I'm worried the situation will result in a squalid kind of stalemate.
2
Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions.
3
Dilapidated and squalid, the unruly settlements have few health and social services.
4
Conditions in detention centres in Anbar province are known to be squalid.
5
The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious.
1
In the hall I found a seedy-looking individual of about middle age.
2
The area went from congested and commercial to seedy as he walked.
3
The crew was seedy; all they did was stop at souvenir stands.
4
A seedy boarding house in a seedy part of town, that's all.
5
To our right stood a seedy barn enclosed within a dilapidated fence.
1
But it was the seamy side of a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise.
2
Cleaned up for an infant audience, fairy tales have a seamy history.
3
And perhaps burlesque has exposed too glaringly its ridiculous or seamy side.
4
Presently Alexander came back, his seamy brown face as blank as ever.
5
Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history?
Usage of sleazy in English
1
He was handsome, no question, but in a sort of sleazy way.
2
Her first thought was that this would be about the sleazy article.
3
In fact, B is relentlessly revealed to be a self-pitying, sleazy racist.
4
The terror she'd felt in that sleazy Baltimore casino came rushing back.
5
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
6
Every flying rod of the sleazy road he knew was a peril.
7
I'd love to know which one of my sleazy cousins stole them.
8
And she'd always deleted the sleazy messages back then-neverdwelled on them.
9
A show that followed Frankie on tour would have been horribly sleazy.
10
The music is soulful, subversive and sleazy, but beautifully arranged and played.
11
Papazian went to a run-down sleazy diner on Broadway near 28th Street.
12
Ric loved seeing it on his so-sleazy but right black satin sheets.
13
He's sleazy, but he doesn't have the guts to actually kill anyone.
14
In any case, the result doesn't even satisfy on its own sleazy terms.
15
Only in that way can it avoid a continuing sleazy decline.
16
Insists he's not nearly as sleazy as you'd expect, given his notorious occupation.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common