sleaze

English

Etymology

From “sleazy”, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

sleaze (countable and uncountable; plural sleazes)

1. (uncountable) low moral standards
   • 2004, London Review of Books, 19 Aug 2004:

     ministerial sleaze and mendacity

   • 1988, The New Yorker, 11 Jan 1988:

     The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.

2. (countable) a person with low moral standards
3. (countable) (the commonest instance of the above) a man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of disgust

Related terms

• sleazebag
• sleaze-merchant
• sleazy

Translations

low moral standards

Catalan: vil (ca) Russian: аморальность (ru) f.

a person with low moral standards

Catalan: aprofitat (ca) m.

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Spanish: corrupción f., las corruptelas, los chanchullos; sordidez f., cutrez f.