sleazes

Noun

sleaze (countable and uncountable, plural sleazes)

1. (uncountable) Low moral standards.
   • The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.1988 January 11, The New Yorker
2. (Ireland, UK, uncountable) Political corruption.
   • ministerial sleaze and mendacity2004 August 19, London Review of Books
3. (countable, informal) A person of low moral standards.
   • She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.1999, E. Brewer, Picking Up the Marbles, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 162
4. (countable, informal) A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.
   • I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down.1989, Weekly World News, "My hubby robbed the cradle and left me with the baby", 7 November, p. 42.
5. (informal, uncountable) Sleazy material or publications.
   • a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze

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