sleaze-merchant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sleaze +‎ merchant

Noun[edit]

sleaze-merchant (plural sleaze-merchants)

  1. A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material
    • 1993, Ian Mitroff, Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xvii:
      Though he can't deny that he deals mostly in the dirty laundry and tragic wreckage of once private lives, Colbert denies that he is a sleaze-merchant or ambulance chaser.
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