sleaze-merchant

English

Etymology

sleaze +‎ merchant

Noun

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, p. 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.