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sleaze-merchants

sleaze-merchants is the plural of sleaze-merchant.

Meaning of sleaze-merchant

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

Questions about sleaze-merchants

What is sleaze-merchants the plural of?
Sleaze-merchants is the plural of sleaze-merchant.

Words near sleaze-merchants in the dictionary

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

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