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How to use sleaze in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Sleaze means low moral standards. Example: “He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.”

Examples of sleaze by meaning

nounLow moral standards.

  • The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.1988 January 11, The New Yorker

nounPolitical corruption.

  • ministerial sleaze and mendacity2004 August 19, London Review of Books
  • Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the Commons sleaze watchdog over a £5m (€5.7m) gift from a party donor.2026 May 13, David Hughes, “Nigel Farage faces probe by sleaze watchdog over £5m gift”, in Irish Examiner

nounA person of low moral standards.

  • She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.1999, E. Brewer, Picking Up the Marbles, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 162

nounA man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.

  • Mother, he's such a sleaze!1996, S. Hoskinson Frommer, Buried in Quilts, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 64

nounSleazy material or publications.

  • a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze

verbTo act or progress in a sleazy manner.

  • He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.

More sentences with sleaze

  • As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.From the entry embody
  • The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story.From the entry leave out
  • Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise. From the entry facthood
  • The party of sleaze seems to be stooping lower and lower as Clinton becomes more desperate.1998 December 19, 2felon...@the.whitehouse, “Dumbocrats Call on Larry Flint”, in alt.politics.clinton (Usenet). From the entry dumbocrat
  • The plot takes us through the "sleaze pits", the lower West Side leather bars, which Travis notes with undue repulsion.1979 April 28, Eric Rofes, “New Yech, New Yech”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry pit
  • Geographic — You could count continents (not ambitious enough, you slacker), sttates (OK, that's more like it), or countries (bravo, you sleaze bucket).2011, Phil Torcivia, Just a Nice Guy, page 222. From the entry sleaze bucket

Meaning of sleaze

  1. noun Low moral standards.
  2. noun Political corruption.
  3. noun A person of low moral standards.

Full definition of sleaze

Questions about sleaze in a sentence

How do you use sleaze in a sentence?
Sleaze is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.”
What is a short sentence with sleaze?
“ministerial sleaze and mendacity”
What does sleaze mean?
Sleaze means low moral standards.

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