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sleaze-merchant

sleaze-merchant noun: a purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material.

Noun

sleaze-merchant (plural sleaze-merchants)

  1. A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material.
    • Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.1993, Ian Mitroff, Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xvii

Forms of sleaze-merchant

pluralsleaze-merchants

Origin of sleaze-merchant

From sleaze + merchant.

Questions about sleaze-merchant

What does sleaze-merchant mean?
Sleaze-merchant means a purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material.
What part of speech is sleaze-merchant?
Sleaze-merchant is a noun.
What is the plural of sleaze-merchant?
The plural of sleaze-merchant is sleaze-merchants.

Words near sleaze-merchant in the dictionary

  1. sleaze buckets
  2. sleaze factor
  3. sleaze factors
  4. sleaze-bucket
  5. sleaze-buckets
  6. sleaze-merchant
  7. sleaze-merchants
  8. sleaze-ridden
  9. sleazebag
  10. sleazebaggery
  11. sleazebags

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