sleezy

Adjective

sleazy (comparative sleazier, superlative sleaziest)

1. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
   • There were two or three all-night diners to choose from and they pushed through the door that announced GOOD EATS in the brightest neon. It was the usual sleazy food-machine - two tired waitresses behind a zinc counter loaded with cigarettes and candy and paperbacks and comics.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 118

   Synonyms:

   ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit

2. Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
   • Sleazy, yeah, I like it sleazy / Oh let's get nasty baby / I like it sleazy / I'll take you for a bad ride1979, “Sleazy”, in Live and Sleazy, performed by Village People

   Synonyms:

   skeezy

3. Untrustworthy, unethical.
   • She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man

   Synonyms:

   unreliable, questionable, sketchy, shady, slimy

4. (dated) Thin and flimsy.
   • Shortly after his return in infirm old age to his native land, a little narrative of his adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, appeared among the peddlers, written, probably, not by himself, but taken down from his lips by another.1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter