Sleazy

Definition: Sleazy

Sleazy

Adjective

1. Of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining".

2. (informal) of very poor quality.

3. Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Sleazy \Slea"zy\, adjective. [Compare to German schleissig worn out, threadbare, from schleissen to slit, split, decay, or English leasy.]. (references)

Synonyms: Sleazy

Crosswords: Sleazy

Do you want your son to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or a sleazy male stripper (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You guys are nothing but a bunch of sleazy conmen in red suits (Jingle All the Way; writing credit: Randy Kornfield)

Any chick that you stick is real sleazy (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

You got a sleazy, one track mind (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Ain't no one you can count on in this sleazy little town (Don't Mean Nothing; performing artist: Richard Marx)

I don't wanna be sleazy (Rock DJ; performing artist: Robbie Williams)

Colin's Sleazy Friends (1995)

Filthy Sleazy Scoundrels (1994)

Earth Girls Are Sleazy (1990)

Sleazy Rider (1988)

The Sleazy Detective (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Sleazy Business: A Pictorial History of Exploitation Tabloids (reference)

• The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Colin's Sleazy Friends Rocks (reference)

• Sleazy Uncle (reference)

• The Sleazy Uncle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live and Sleazy [Rebound] [LIVE] (reference)

• Sleazy Roadside Stories (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "sleazy": sleazy-looking.

Albanian

i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, lax, rocky, scruffy, slight, slim, thin, tumbledown), ‏غير أخلاقي (non moral), ‏خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, pooch, reptile, ruffian, scruffy, servile, shabby, shoddy, small change, sordid, vile, villainous), ‏رخيص (cheap, crummy, frugal, inexpensive, junk, low-priced, saleable, shoddy, tinny, two bit), ‏ردئ الصنع (shoddy), ‏دنئ (currish, loon, low down, mean, obsequious, rank, scurvy, seamy, servile, stinking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), занемарен (neglected, ragged, run down, seedy, shabby, squalid, uncultivated, unkempt, untended), евтин (brummagem, cheap, cheesy, dime, gaudy, halfpenny, hand-me-down, inexpensive, jitney, light, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel, trumpery, two bit, twopence colored, twopence coloured, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncostly), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar), долнокачествен (crummy, cut rate, gross, hedge, inferior, leaden, low-grade, pinchbeck, ropy, scrubby, slim, third class, tinpot, trashy). (various references)

Chinese 

单薄. (various references)

Czech

ucouraný (bedraggled), ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dingy, dismal, down in the mouth, grotty, miserable, paltry, pitiable, poor, wretched), tenouèký. (various references)

Farsi 

سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak). (various references)

French

sordide, poisseux, miteux (slight, slim). (various references)

German

schmierig (dirty, filthy, greasily, greasy, grimy, gungy, lubricious, oily, oozy, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smeary, smudgy, unwholesome), verkommen (abandoned, become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, become spoiled, decay, depraved, deteriorate, dilapidated, fall to pieces, go bad, go to pieces, go to the bad, go to the dogs, go to waste, reprobate, reprobated, reprobately, run wild, scrofulous, sordid, to reprobate, wild). (various references)

Greek 

λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), απεριποίητοσ (neglected, scruffy, uncared for, unkempt), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak). (various references)

Hebrew 

קלוש ומטו� ף. (various references)

Hungarian

szakadós, tetves (crappy, lousy, nitty, sleazo), szakadt (raggedy-ass, raunchy, sleazo, tacky, torn), lompos (dowdy, draggle-tailed, mangy, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly, tacky), lerobbant (broken-down-looking, raggedy-ass, raunchy, sleazo, to be out of kilter), lepusztult (raunchy, ravaged, sleazo), laza (accommodating, easy, flimsy, flipperty-flopperty, floppy, incompact, lax, loose, open, running, slack, sloppy), gyenge tartású, foszlós. (various references)

Italian

squallido (bleak, dingy, dismal, dreary, seamy, shabby, squalid, wretched), untuoso (fat, fatty, greasy, lubricious, oily, smarmy, smeary, smooth, smudgy, unctious, unctuous), trasandato (dowdy, scruffy, shabby, slipshod, slovenly, untidy). (various references)

Korean 

하찮은 (insignificant, trivial). (various references)

Pig Latin

eazyslay.(various references)

Portuguese

leve (buoyant, fleet-footed, flowing, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, light-legged, remote, slight, slim, tenuous, tripping, weightless), frágil (brash, breakable, brittle, dainty, decayed, decrepit, delicate, dilapidated, fragile, frail, friable, lapsed, pasteboard, rickety, tender, weak, weakly, well-made), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, select, sharp, sheer, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well-bred, well-made, wispy), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, fine, flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingerly, kid-glove, kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out-and-out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made), delgado (elongate, fine, gaunt, lank, lean, reedy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

Romanian

neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), care nu rezistã la purtare, şlampãt (draggle-tailed, slattern, slatternly, slovenly). (various references)

Russian 

тонкий (delicate, fine, finespun, gauzy, keen, papery, slender, slim, slimline, subtle, thin, twiggy, wispy), непрочный;убогий, непрочный (built on sand, flimsy, frail, groggy, haywire, insubstantial, perishable, rotten, unsubstantial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, scrannel, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, weak, wispy), lošeg kvaliteta (poor quality, quality: of poor quality, shoddy). (various references)

Spanish

sórdido (backstairs, seamy, seedy, slummy, sordid), untuoso (fatty, greasy, lubricious, smeary, smudgy, unctuous), desaseado (scraggly, scruff, slatternly, sleazily, slipshod, sloppy, tatty, uncared for, untidy). (various references)

Swedish

sjaskig (blowzy, dowdy, flea-bitten, grubby, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, tattered), tunn (fine, flimsy, gaunt, lean, light, rare, sheer, slender, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

Thai

สกปรก (cacky, dirty, foul, grubby, grungy, mucky, sordid, squalid), ซึ่งไม่ซื่อสัตย์ (false). (various references)

Turkish

kalitesiz (cheap, cheap and nasty, cheap jack, coarse, hand-me-down, inferior, of poor quality, offgrade, ornery, punk, ropy, shoddy, third class, third rate), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, hangdog, mean, poky, ratty, seedy, shabby, slovenly, untidy), hırpani (dowdy, seedy, shabby, slatternly, ungainly, unkempt), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references)

Ukrainian

тонкий (acute, capillary, gauzy, nice, slim, soft, spidery, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin), неміцний (insubstantial, rotten, shaky, sketchy, slight, ticklish, unsubstantial, unwholesome, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lôi thôi lếch thếch (slatternly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sleazy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leazy, S'easy, Selaby, Sellasie, sezy, siladzic, Silenzio, slea, Sleary, sleasy, sleevy, sleezy, slez, slizy, sneezy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lazes, lyase, zeals.

-2 letters: ales, ayes, easy, eyas, lase, lays, laze, lazy, leas, leys, lyes, lyse, sale, seal, slay, yeas, zeal.

-3 letters: ale, als, aye, ays, els, las, lay, lea, ley, lez, lye, sae, sal, say, sea, sel, sly, yea, yes.

-4 letters: ae, al, as, ay, el, es, la, ya, ye.

+2 letters: analyzes, dialyzes, sizeably, sleazily.

+3 letters: analyzers, autolyzes, catalyzes, dialyzers, lazybones, paralyzes, zealously.

+4 letters: catalyzers, crystalize, dialyzates, paralyzers, plasmolyze, reanalyzes.

+5 letters: autolyzates, crystalized, crystalizes, crystallize, plasmolyzed, plasmolyzes, polygamizes, pyrolyzates.