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How to use sleazy in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective

Sleazy means marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate. Example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”

Examples of sleazy by meaning

adjectiveMarked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.

  • It was the usual sleazy food-machine - two tired waitresses behind a zinc counter loaded with cigarettes and candy and paperbacks and comics.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 118
  • Al bought my furniture at ten percent of its value and Jim drove me to a sleazy side-avenue hotel, where I obtained a room at a low rate.2014, Louis V. Rohr, The President's Hero, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 3

adjectiveRaunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.

  • Nancy knew it was a sleazy movie because the channel's logo appeared in the lower right corner of the screen.2000, Stephen D. Dighton, Locked In, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 226

adjectiveUntrustworthy, unethical.

  • She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer.1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man
  • Their reasons are mainly because they are simply people that I would consider sleazy— sleazy, slimy, shady, whatever term you want to use.2011, Gary Patella, Diary of an Evil Genius, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38

adjectiveThin and flimsy.

  • It was a black dress, near-princess in style, very tight as to fit, very short as to skirt, very sleazy as to material.1912, Edna Ferber, “What She Wore”, in Buttered Side Down
  • She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Main Street

More sentences with sleazy

  • Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.From the entry radioactive
  • " "Take it sleazy, Gino," I said , patting him on the back as I took off down the hall.From the entry take it sleazy
  • It features a protorap (talking in rhythm) over a sleazy, sax-dominated arrangement.2017, Edited by M. L. Liebler, Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond, →ISBN. From the entry protorap
  • It’s kind of pimpy, sleazy, Eurotrash-guys-in-Vegas fashion, but it’s fashion.”2007 September 16, Alex Kuczynski, “Nude Awakening”, in New York Times. From the entry pimpy
  • Jeez, just go to the beauty parlor if you want to read the sleazy tabloids, for heaven's sake!1997 February 28, DeeTigress, “Star Tabloid”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026. From the entry haircuttery
  • Only Kit played like a hick, and still my blood reared at the sight of him in that sleazy nineties dress shirt, hamfisting his guitar.2017 February 16, Ajay Close, “Nudge”, in The Daughter of Lady Macbeth, Dingwall, Highland: Sandstone Press, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry hamfist
  • So off we went, six sleazy hookers in low-cut leopard stretch tops, red teddys with micro minis, skin tight hot pink latex pants.1988 April 15, David Fremon, “Extras”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry teddys
  • It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors.1955 December 26, “Old Play in Manhattan”, in Time. From the entry fits and starts
  • It's not exactly a promising premise: a washed-up boxer turned sleazy promoter finds a champion on the underground robot-boxing circuit, bonding with his estranged son in the process.2024 January 31, Jason Bailey, “Stream These 11 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in February”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry hypercalculated
  • The result was a succès de scandale that touched a raw feminist nerve, threw inveterately sleazy art-world politics into relief, and caused permanent editorial rifts at Artforum itself.2007 July 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry inveterately
  • Republican pollster Ed Goeas echoed this sentiment, stating that "anonymously spreading rumor and innuendo through push-polls is sleazy and should have no part in a campaign strategy.2001, Dennis W. Johnson, No Place for Amateurs, →ISBN, page 166. From the entry push-poll
  • Maybe that's why a state legislative committee, asked to recommend changes to Illinois' politically sleazy purchasing system. has called for a new bureaucracy of pachydermic proportions.1994, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 2. From the entry pachydermic
  • "In the football business there are so many sleazy bums — broken-down valises, I call them — who don't have two quarters to rub together," Bloom said.1987 June 21, Bill Brubaker, “The Rise and Gall of Secret Agents Walters and Bloom”, in Washington Post, Washington, DC. From the entry broken-down valise
  • The Hotel Marlborough stands ugly and unloved in a mean, sleazy street in midtown Manhattan between the tasteless black glassery of Sixth Avenue and the honest vulgarity of Broadway.1975, Denis Pitts, This City is Ours: A Novel, page 36. From the entry glassery

Meaning of sleazy

  1. adjective Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  2. adjective Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
  3. adjective Untrustworthy, unethical.

Full definition of sleazy

Questions about sleazy in a sentence

How do you use sleazy in a sentence?
Sleazy is used as an adjective. For example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”
What is a short sentence with sleazy?
“She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer.”
What does sleazy mean?
Sleazy means marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.

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