sleazebucket
sleazebucket noun: a term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.
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
- Apparently the Griner brothers weren't the only sleazebuckets abroad with explosives.2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties
- 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
- 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
| plural | sleazebuckets |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sleaze bucket |
| alternative form | sleaze-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
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