Dictionary Definition
sleazy adj
1 of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has
a sleazy lining"
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" [syn:
seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid] [also: sleaziest, sleazier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːzi
Adjective
- Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
- Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy
Translations
Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
base,
breakable, brittle, broken-down, cheap, cheap-jack, cheesy, chintzy, cobwebby, common, contemptible, crappy, crumbly, crummy, dainty, delicate, delicately weak,
dilapidated,
dingy, dirty, disreputable, down-at-heel,
effeminate, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, fragile, frail, frangible, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, light, lightweight, low-class,
low-grade, mean,
namby-pamby, paltry,
papery, pasteboardy, poor, puny, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, shabby, shattery, shoddy, sissified, slight, slipshod, slummy, sordid, squalid, tacky, tatty, tawdry, tenuous, thin, trashy, unsubstantial, wispy, womanish