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Sleazy   /slˈizi/   Listen
adjective
Sleazy  adj.  (Spelt also slazy)  Lacking firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sleazy" Quotes from Famous Books



... flavour beneath the sprig of mint that floated on the top. Slowly she sipped it. And then for a moment she let her eyes wander across the faces lined up before the counter beside her. Next to her was an old woman in a sleazy black dress with a turban-like hat all swathed with a long black veil hemmed with black. She had looped it back in anticipation of the drink she would soon get. The old face was white and limned with wrinkles, and one hand, as it rested timidly on the edge of the counter, was heavily ...
— Stubble • George Looms

... Chesapeake Club, for one—a big-paunched man who always wore, summer and winter, a reasonably white waistcoat and a sleazy necktie; swore in a loud voice and dropped his g's when he talked. "Bit 'em off," his friends said, as he did the end of his cigars. He had, in honor of the occasion so contrived that his black coat and trousers matched this time, while his shoestring ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Homer, thee, Thee also I forgive thy sandy wastes Of prose and catalogue, thy drear harangues That tease the patience of the centuries, Thy sleazy scrap of story, — but a rogue's Rape of a light-o'-love, — too soiled a patch To broider ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... the clothes—the cheap, sleazy garments the poor mother had made ready as best she could. But this did not solve the pressing problem of the baby's transportation. Rilla looked helplessly round. Oh, for mother—or Susan! Her eyes fell on an enormous blue soup tureen at ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



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