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Recent Examples of skanky My first outfit was from Le Chateau, a skanky bathing suit and a weird top. Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 3 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skanky
Adjective
  • His family’s investments in cryptocurrency, including allegations of corrupt self-dealing, galvanized most Democrats to oppose the bill.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 17 June 2025
  • The film gathers immoral cops, ruthless women and corrupt politicians to complete the world of populist cinema based in hinterlands of India.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jeff is a bit of a voyeur or peeping Tom, though not in a perverted way.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As a longtime money manager for professional athletes, and a veteran of the sleazy business of recruiting big time college stars as his future clients, Blazer knew the inner truths of the corrupt and corrupting world of amateur sports.
    Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
  • The play recounts the landmark moment in 1954 when CBS News legend Edward R. Murrow challenged the sleazy smear tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the anti-Communist scare.
    William Earl, Variety, 8 June 2025

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“Skanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skanky. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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