Sleaze  

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Sleazy city
Seedy films
Breathing so heavy
Next to my neighbour
Let's get acquainted
Getting to know you
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city

--"Seedy Films" (1981) by Soft Cell

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Etymology

sleazy originally was an adjective used to decribe the thinness and low quality of cloth

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Adjective

sleazy

  1. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  2. Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy
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Noun

sleaze

  1. a person with low moral standards
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Quotations

  • 1988: The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years. — The New Yorker, 11 Jan 1988
  • 2004: ministerial sleaze and mendacity — London Review of Books, 19 Aug 2004
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