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sleazebucket

sleazebucket noun: a term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.

Noun

sleazebucket (plural sleazebuckets)

  1. (derogatory, slang) 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
    • Apparently the Griner brothers weren't the only sleazebuckets abroad with explosives.2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties
  2. (derogatory, slang) 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
    • I loved this stuff when I was 14, and I never thought "sleazebucket" when it got dazzlingly vulgar.1994, The New York Times Magazine - Part 5, page 3
    1. (derogatory, slang) 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
      • We're in a sleaze bucket of a place, but for eight bucks a night you can hardly grumble.2010, Teri Louise Kelly, American Blow Job: A Novel

Examples of sleazebucket in a sentence

  • He instantly recognized the older of the two, a distinguished-looking man with a craggy face and a full head of silver hair—the Chief, the sleazebucket who had made a move on his mom .2019, Michael Betcherman, The Justice Project:
  • Be it noted that you're involved in such sleazebucket capers.2011, Ian Watson, The Flies of Memory:
  • One of the things a short scene can't show you is that Halloween is directed and acted with a great deal more artistry and craftsmanship than the sleazebucket movies we've been talking about.2015, Murray Leeder, Halloween, page 1981:
  • There's bound to be one in a sleazebucket place like this.2022, Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon, page 236:

Synonyms of sleazebucket

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Forms of sleazebucket

pluralsleazebuckets
alternative formsleaze bucket
alternative formsleaze-bucket

Origin of sleazebucket

From sleaze + bucket.

Questions about sleazebucket

What does sleazebucket mean?
Sleazebucket means a term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.
How do you use sleazebucket in a sentence?
He instantly recognized the older of the two, a distinguished-looking man with a craggy face and a full head of silver hair—the Chief, the sleazebucket who had made a move on his mom .
What part of speech is sleazebucket?
Sleazebucket is a noun.
What is the plural of sleazebucket?
The plural of sleazebucket is sleazebuckets.

Words near sleazebucket in the dictionary

  1. sleazebag
  2. sleazebaggery
  3. sleazebags
  4. sleazeball
  5. sleazeballs
  6. sleazebucket
  7. sleazebuckets
  8. sleazecore
  9. sleazed
  10. sleazehole
  11. sleazeholes

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