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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

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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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