sleazy
Adjective Satellite
- of cloth; thin and loosely woven
- "the coat has a sleazy lining"
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- morally degraded; ; ; ; - Seattle Weekly; - James Joyce
- "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"
- "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"
Adj
- Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
- Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
- Untrustworthy.
- Thin and flimsy.
Adjective
- Shoddy, flimsy, or morally degraded; disreputable.
Examples
- His SLEAZY attempt to challenge a valid word backfired, costing him a turn.
Origin / Etymology
Origin obscure. Possibly a corruption of Silesia, through a word meaning “Silesian cloth”. Silesia used to be the most important location of Germany’s weaving industry.
Synonyms
bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid, tinny, ass, bad, base, below par, broken, crapperific, crappo, crappy, craptabulous, craptacular, craptastic, flimsy, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, pitiful, poor, questionable, rinky-dink, rubbish, sad, schlocky, shady, shitty, shoddy, skeezy, sketchy, slight, slim, slimy, sorry, subpar, substandard, tin-pot, unacceptable, unfit, unreliable, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsuitable, woeful, wretched
Scrabble Score: 18
sleazy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsleazy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sleazy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary