Word Study
sleazy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sleazy has 3 senses
- sleazy(s = adj.all) Array - of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"
- sleazy(s = adj.all) bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny - of very poor quality; flimsy; Array Derived forms noun sleaze1, noun sleaziness2
- sleazy(s = adj.all) seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid - morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" Derived form noun sleaziness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sleazy, a. [Cf. G. schleissig worn out, threadbare, from schleissen to slit, split, decay, or E. leasy.].
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sleazy, adj. (sleazier, sleaziest)
1 squalid, tawdry.
2 slatternly.
3 (of textiles etc.) flimsy.
1 squalid, tawdry.
2 slatternly.
3 (of textiles etc.) flimsy.
Derivative
sleazily adv. sleaziness n.
Etymology
17th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
sleazy
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
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