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Definition: Sleaze |
SleazeNoun1. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SleazeSynonyms: cheapness (n), tackiness (n), tat (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's sleaze like that that gives sleaze like us a bad name. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum) | |
Lyrics | If you sleaze me all right (CRADLE OF LOVE; performing artist: Billy Idol) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lesbian Sleaze (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Those of us who thought that Clinton's legacy would be corruption and sleaze were only half right. |
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| "Sleaze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Sleaze" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.29% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sleaze": sleaze-bag, sleaze-balls, sleaze-hound. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sleaze | 59 |
dream sleaze | 8 |
celebrity sleaze | 8 |
sleaze test | 4 |
b movie porn sleaze | 2 |
nation sleaze | 2 |
sleaze take wife | 2 |
report sleaze | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sleaze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | skandalgeschichten, Schmuddelkram. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mocsok (Colly, creep, defilement, grime, muck, ordure, scuz, scuzz, sleazebag, smirch, sodding, squalor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eazeslay ненадежность (insecurity, precariousness, unreliability), аморальность (amorality, immorality). (various references) desaseo (dissoluteness, libertinism, licentiousness, slovenliness). (various references) คนทุจริต, ความไม่ซื่อสัตย์ (skuldugery, skulldugery). (various references) погана якість. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sleaze": sleazebag, sleazebags, sleazeball, sleazeballs, sleazes. (additional references) | |
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"Sleaze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leaze, sease, seaze, Selase, Selasse, Sellasie, skeeze, slea, slease, sleeze, slez, sluze, steaze, steeze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleaze" (pronounced slē"z) |
| 3 | -l ē" z | displease, enrollees, fleas, flees, journalese, Leas, Lees, parolees, pleas, please. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-s-z" | |
-1 letter: easel, lazes, lease, zeals. | |
-2 letters: alee, ales, ease, eels, else, lase, laze, leas, lees, sale, seal, seel, zeal, zees. | |
-3 letters: ale, als, eel, els, las, lea, lee, lez, sae, sal, sea, see, sel, zee. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-s-z" | |
+1 letter: sleazes, teazels, teazles. | |
+2 letters: deglazes, emblazes, gazelles, quezales, realizes, reglazes, seizable, sizeable, sleazier, spaetzle. | |
+3 letters: bedazzles, emblazers, equalizes, hazelhens, idealizes, laterizes, legalizes, lespedeza, melanizes, metalizes, overzeals, penalizes, quetzales, realizers, serialize, sexualize, sleazebag, sleaziest, spaetzles, velarizes. | |
+4 letters: aerosolize, alchemizes, bestialize, cartelizes, desalinize, equalizers, feudalizes, glazieries, idealizers, lazarettes, lazinesses, legalizers, lespedezas, linearizes, marbleizes, metallizes, overglazes, palletizes, reanalyzes, secularize, sensualize, serialized, serializes, sexualized, sexualizes, sleazebags, sleazeball, sleaziness, specialize, squeezable, verbalizes, vernalizes, zealotries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 61 7A 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e a z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0061 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537871679271 |
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