sleaze-bucket
sleaze-bucket is the alternative form of sleazebucket.
Meaning of sleazebucket
Noun
sleazebucket (plural sleazebuckets)
- A term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.
- He bought cops like this sleazebucket, bought juries, bought witnesses, bought loyalty.2008, Roxanne St. Claire, Then You Hide, page 5
- Anything sleazy, vulgar, and disgusting.
- Such hypocrisy hit Upfront like spiked Kool-Aid recently when Tribune TV critic Gary Deeb began his column: "ABC, the sleazebucket network that has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years by exploiting the cruelest and most antisocial instincts of the mass television audience...1979, “Guyana: A question of taste”, in Chicago, volume 28, page 14
- A lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.
- It's a typical sleazebucket of a place—broken-down bed, filthy floor, and a cracked mirror.1995, Faye Kellerman, “Bonding”, in Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, editor, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, page 477
Forms of sleaze-bucket
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Questions about sleaze-bucket
- What is sleaze-bucket the alternative form of?
- Sleaze-bucket is the alternative form of sleazebucket.
Words near sleaze-bucket in the dictionary
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