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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
a real sleaze who is constantly mooching off friends, and friends of friends
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as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth
the TV networks wouldn't be airing such sleaze if the public wasn't watching it
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Recent Examples of sleaze
However, unlike that film's director, Claire Denis, Rollin is never afraid to indulge in camp, and occasionally outright sleaze, to juice his narrative at just the right moments.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
A touch of sleaze floated across this upscale-at-first-glance wardrobe.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
Twin Shadow One of the indie sleaze era’s final heartthrobs, synth pop crooner Twin Shadow was a rising star as the 2010s took shape.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The clothes are no longer made in L.A., but curiously, the indie sleaze billboard campaign has returned to the city.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
A touch of sleaze floated across this upscale-at-first-glance wardrobe.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
Twin Shadow One of the indie sleaze era’s final heartthrobs, synth pop crooner Twin Shadow was a rising star as the 2010s took shape.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The clothes are no longer made in L.A., but curiously, the indie sleaze billboard campaign has returned to the city.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleaze
Noun
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The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The healthy-dose of cheese in this recipe will convert even the most ardent broccoli hater.—
Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
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Turkey meal includes mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green beans, broccoli salad; ham meal includes mac and cheese, turnip greens, broccoli salad, hashbrown casserole.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And the bureaucratic strangle that leads to this inflation continues its creep.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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What most of us get instead is the slow creep of burnout.—
Rochelle Ratkaj,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Tonight, Al Roker and his Weather Hunter team will be in attendance, anticipating a bevy of soulful classics, including oxtail, ribs, fries, mac and cheese and jerk chicken.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dig into Caribbean jerk chicken pizza at Blackstone Pub downtown or savor a few slices topped with spicy meatballs and peppadews served with a waterfront view at Little Bridge Marina’s Pizza Kitchen.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Having junk hauled away costs money.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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As the investigation continues, scientists are weighing a series of improbable scenarios, from space rocks to space junk, in hopes of identifying what exactly fell from the sky onto a moving Tesla in the South Australian night.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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After spending a decade and a half in the brains of a meth kingpin and a slimeball attorney, Gilligan wanted his next protagonist to be a force for good.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Now, these slimeballs no longer pose a threat to public safety.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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The sibling filmmaking duo spent most of the 2010s making a colossal two-part movie adaptation of King’s 1,138-page horror opus about a shapeshifting clown who terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maine.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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The woman dressed as a spooky ringmaster while her husband played the part of a creepy clown.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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When firefighters arrived at the scene, multiple cars and piles of rubbish were on fire.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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One hurdle for these editors is that far-right hate is more conducive to digital slop, both because algorithms prize outlandish ragebait and because the tribalistic ideas themselves are low IQ rubbish.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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